Branko Milanovic

Stone Center Senior Scholar Branko Milanovic discusses the recent update of his All the Ginis (ATG) dataset, which now covers the period from 1950 to 2024 and includes 6,762 Ginis from 183 countries or territories. He also explains the continuing challenges in improving the production and collection of data on national income inequalities, and gives a warning about technological change.

The Stone Center on Socio-Economic Inequality is seeking applicants for a ninth cohort of postdoctoral scholars. These full-time, two-year positions will begin in August 2026.

Stone Center Senior Scholars, Affiliated Scholars, and Postdoctoral Scholars presented their research at the World Inequality Conference at the Paris School of Economics in June.

The Stone Center’s sixth cohort of postdoctoral scholars, Zhexun Mo and Severin Rapp, will start new positions this fall after they complete their two-year terms at the Graduate Center. Mo will join the economics department of Laval University, and Rapp will join the London School of Economics's International Inequalities Institute.

Experts discuss Branko Milanovic's timely new book on the changing roles of the U.S. and China as global powers.

An excerpt from Branko Milanovic's book, The Great Global Transformation: National Market Liberalism in a Multipolar World. The book examines how the greatest changes in global incomes — the creation of a new upper class in China, and the decline of the middle class in the U.S. — since the Industrial Revolution are likely to influence the global economy in the next century.

B. Milanovic and M. Ranaldi. Stone Center Working Paper Series no. 125. 2026.

P. Erfurth, M.G. León, G. Gabbuti, and B. Milanovic. Stone Center Working Paper Series no. 122. 2026.

Experts discuss Branko Milanovic's timely new book on the changing roles of the U.S. and China as global powers.

An excerpt from Branko Milanovic's latest book, The World Under Capitalism: Observations on Economics Politics, History, and Culture, a 2025 collection of his essays from the last decade.