Income Inequality

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. 

F. H. G. Ferreira, P. Brunori, G. Neidhöfer, P. Salas-Rojo, and L. Sirugue. Stone Center Working Paper Series no. 117. 2025.

S. Hong, N. N. Kim, Z. Mo, and L. Yang. Stone Center Working Paper Series no. 113. 2025.

Kenworthy, a professor of sociology and the Yankelovich Chair in Social Thought at the University of California, San Diego, discusses the findings in his latest book, which examines whether reducing income inequality would have beneficial effects on living standards, health, economic opportunity, the functioning of democracy, and subjective measures of happiness.

Why is capital so concentrated and why do so few have it? Stone Center Senior Scholar and GC CUNY Research Professor Branko Milanovic discusses capital income and how it functions under new capitalism in this final post of his three-part series.

Are all class-based societies unequal? Stone Center Senior Scholar and GC CUNY Research Professor Branko Milanovic discusses the differences between compositional and income inequality in this blog post, the second in a three-part series.

The richest capitalists and richest workers are increasingly the same people, Stone Center Senior Scholar and GC CUNY Research Professor Branko Milanovic explains in this blog post, the first in a three-part series.

A panel of experts helps us understand the complex realities of China today.

Part II of Stone Center Senior Scholar Paul Krugman’s series “Understanding Inequality,” which originally appeared on his Substack newsletter.

Branko Milanovic discusses global inequality with host Sanjay Ruparelia, a professor in the Department of Politics & Public Administration and the Jarislowsky Democracy Chair at Toronto Metropolitan University. The event took place on April 24, 2025 in the Toronto Public Library.