Well, you can do whatever you want, but just don’t call it inequality. Put the word poverty there. Because we have many rich people on our board, and when they see the word poverty that makes them feel good, because… — Branko Milanovic Copy Share Image
The middle class in the rich countries is where the political game is being played. They are voting in elections in the U.S., U.K.,… — Branko Milanovic Copy Share Image
If we knew what type of jobs would exist in 20 years, we would be quite rich. But we just cannot visualize it. — Branko Milanovic Copy Share Image
Global inequality is such an abstract concept, simply because there is no global government. Telling people in rich countries who have had no increase… — Branko Milanovic Copy Share Image
In the U.S. when people like me started writing things about inequality, the economic journals had no classification for inequality. I couldn't find where… — Branko Milanovic Copy Share Image
While you can say that the problem of the middle class in the rich countries is too much globalization, the problem of the people… — Branko Milanovic Copy Share Image
What is different between national inequality and global inequality is you have another element there that is sometimes forgotten: what matters for global inequality… — Branko Milanovic Copy Share Image
“What determines inequality among individuals within a single nation? Are there certain regularities that make inequality behave in a particular way as societies develop?” — Branko Milanović Copy Share Image
Most people believe that inequality is rising - and indeed it has been rising for a while in a number of rich countries. And… — Branko Milanovic Copy Share Image
People in the rich countries who have done very well, who are at the top of the income pyramid, try to steamroll over the… — Branko Milanovic Copy Share Image
When the industrial revolution happened there was the Luddistic movement, and there was a fear that machinery would replace all the labor. Whenever we… — Branko Milanovic Copy Share Image
If, for example, each of us had the same share of capital in the national total capital, then if the share of capital goes… — Branko Milanovic Copy Share Image
Even if parties associated with right wing populism don't win, they push other parties, the centrist parties, towards their position. So they do have… — Branko Milanovic Copy Share Image
Well, you can do whatever you want, but just don’t call it inequality. Put the word poverty there. Because we have many rich people… — Branko Milanovic Copy Share Image
I was at the World Bank and a commission reviewed our work on inequality for the U.S. Congress or somebody, and the head of… — Branko Milanovic Copy Share Image
![“Well, you can do whatever you want, but just don’t call it inequality. Put the word poverty there. Because we have many rich people on our board, and when they see the word poverty that makes them feel good, because [it means] they’re really nice people who care about the poor. When they see the…” quote by Branko Milanovic](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/0f0/branko-milanovic-34886_care_well-you-can-do-whatever-you-want-but-ju_2888062.jpg)
