Economist Branko Milanovic is one of the sharpest critics of global inequality. He spoke to Jacobin about how the decline of neoliberal globalization is harshening its most destructive tendencies.

Branko Milanovic is one of the most authoritative commentators on global inequality, globalization, and capitalism. He’s written about these topics extensively in his books Capitalism, Alone and Visions of Inequality as well as The World Under Capitalism, an anthology of his popular blogs on these subjects.

The so-called Elephant Curve — the famous graph looking at global income distribution, which he produced together with Christoph Lakner in 2013 — is perhaps the best encapsulation of globalization’s achievements, such as an overall reduction in global inequality, as well as underlying woes,

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