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| ==Research and career== | |||
| Milanović focuses on the issues of globalization, income distribution, and democracy. Between 1996 and 2007, he has served as an adjunct professor of Economics of at the School for Advanced International Studies, ]. He was Senior Fellow at Carnegie Endowmnent for International Peace in Washington (2003-05). | |||
| He is an expert in income distribution (inequalities within nations and globally). | |||
| Milanović has published numerous papers and several books, mainly on world ] and ]. He is the author of the first work assessing global income inequality between individuals (Economic Journal, 2002). His 2005 book ("Worlds Apart") introduced three concepts of international or global inequality: unweighted inequality between mean country incomes, population-weighted inequality between mean country incomes, and global income inequality between all individuals in the world. His concept of inequality possibility frontier, defined in a 2006 paper on inequality in Byzantium ("Review of Income and Wealth") and later expanded in joint work with Jeffrey Williamson and Peter Lindert is particularly useful in studies of inequality in pre-industrial societies. His most recent book "The haves and the have-nots: a short and idiosyncratic history of global inequality" was published in 2011. It was selected as 2011 Top book of the year by the Globalist. | |||
| == Selected books == | == Selected books == | ||
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Branko Milanović is a Lead economist in the World Bank's research department in the unit dealing with poverty and inequality and visiting professor at the School of Public Policy, University of Maryland.
Education
Milanović received a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Belgrade in 1987.
Selected books
- Liberalization and Entrepreneurship. Dynamics of Reform in Socialism and Capitalism, 1989. M.E. Sharpe.
- Income, Inequality, and Poverty during the Transition from Planned to Market Economy. 1998. World Bank.
- (with Ethan Kapstein) Income and Influence. 2003. W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research.
- (with Christiaan Grootaert and Jeanine Braithwaite) Poverty and Social Assistance in Transition Countries. 1999. St. Martin's Press.
- Worlds Apart. Measuring International and Global Inequality. 2005. Princeton/Oxford.
- The Haves and the Have-Nots: A Short and Idiosyncratic History of Global Inequality. 2011. Basic Books.
References
- http://www.carnegieendowment.org/experts/index.cfm?fa=expert_view&expert_id=208
- http://econ.worldbank.org/external/default/main?authorMDK=91636&theSitePK=469372&menuPK=64214916&pagePK=64214821&piPK=64214942
- http://www.theglobalist.com/StoryId.aspx?StoryId=9491
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