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In The American Prospect, Miles Corak reviews Branko Milanovic's book, Global Inequality: A New Approach for the Age of Globalization.

In this video, Paul Krugman and Olivier Blanchard engage in a discussion about recent crises around the world and how to prevent global economic collapse.

In this video, leading thinkers grapple with the major issues surrounding women’s rights and gender equality.

In this video, Angus Deaton traces the dramatic increase in human prosperity over the past 250 years as well as the widening gap between the poor and sick, and the rich and well.

C. Lackner and B. Milanovic. The World Bank Economic Review. vol. 30, no. 2. pp. 203-232. 2015.

Watch two of the world’s leading experts on economics and the environment discuss the intersection of climate change and inequality.

Watch Jeff Madrick discuss themes in his recent book with Nobel Prize–winning economist and New York Times columnist Paul Krugman.

B. Milanovic and N. Sambanis. Comparative Political Studies. vol. 47, no. 13. pp. 1830-1855. 2014.

Janet Gornick's keynote address at the UN Second Committee General Debate.

Watch French economist Thomas Piketty participate in a panel discussing his new book, Capital in the Twenty-First Century at the Graduate Center.