Visions of Inequality : : From the French Revolution to the End of the Cold War / / Branko Milanovic.
A sweeping and original history of how economists across two centuries have thought about inequality, told through portraits of six key figures."How do you see income distribution in your time, and how and why do you expect it to change?" That is the question Branko Milanovic imagines posi...
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