Macroeconomy

In Bloomberg, a look at wealth inequality and the pandemic with Salvatore Morelli.

In this commentary, Stone Center faculty — Miles Corak, Janet Gornick, Paul Krugman, Leslie McCall, Branko Milanovic, and Salvatore Morelli — each with unique expertise in the study of inequality, offer insights on the COVID-19 crisis.

In Foreign Affairs, Branko Milanovic says advanced societies must not allow economics, particularly the fortunes of financial markets, to blind them to the fact that the most important role economic policy can play now is to keep social bonds strong under this extraordinary pressure.

In this interview, Branko Milanovic discusses recent political instability, trends in policy on inequality, and a way to break the 1 percent’s “quasi-automatic” increasing share of capital.

P. Krugman. New York: W.W. Norton & Company. 2020.

In this video, experts discuss the prospects for a fairer world now that capitalism is the predominant economic system.

In Foreign Affairs, Branko Milanovic discusses the U.S. and China's competing brands of capitalism and what it means for future inequality.

B. Milanovic. Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press. 2019.

Branko Milanovic will discuss his new book, Capitalism, Alone: The Future of the System That Rules the World.

In The Economist, Miles Corak weighs in on some of Canada's economic challenges for sustaining its middle class.