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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.

Branko Milanovic discusses his new book, The Great Global Transformation: National Market Liberalism in a Multipolar World, with Kirsten Sehnbruch at an event hosted by LSE's International Inequalities Institute. 

N. Bharti, A. Gethin, T. Jenmana, Z. Mo, T, Piketty, and L. Yang. Stone Center Working Paper Series no. 114. 2025.

In this post, Stone Center postdoctoral scholar Zhexun Mo, an economist whose research focuses on the intersection of political economics, development, and economic history, reflects on the Center’s recent international workshop.

L. Yang, B. Milanovic, and Y. Lin. European Journal of Political Economy. vol. 85. 2024.

Authors Henry Farrell and Abraham Newman discuss how the U.S. controls a global network of communication and finance, the subject of their new book, in this conversation with Stone Center Senior Scholar Paul Krugman.

M. Ranaldi. Stone Center Working Paper Series. no. 85. Revised 2024.

Authors Henry Farrell and Abraham Newman discuss how the U.S. controls a global network of communication and finance, the subject of their new book, in this conversation with Stone Center Senior Scholar Paul Krugman.

B. Milanovic. World Development. vol. 177. 2024.

Deborah Balk, with Daniela Tagtachian, in this presentation for the Stone Center’s Inequality by the Numbers 2023 virtual workshop, uses a wealth of new data sources and measures to examine global, regional, and racial variation in exposure to low-lying coastal zones, demonstrating the need to address climate change through a social equity lens.