This is the first video of a two-part lecture in which the Stone Center’s Branko Milanovic discusses writings on inequality by François Quesnay, Adam Smith, David Ricardo, and Karl Marx and how their work can be interpreted in terms of interpersonal inequality. In this first video, Milanovic focuses on Quesnay and Smith.

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Watch Part 2 of Milanovic’s lecture, in which he focuses on Ricardo and Marx.