The Economy in Plain English with Branko Milanovic

The Economy in Plain English returns with world-leading economist, Branko Milanovic to discuss his new book, The Great Global Transformation

Branko takes us through the ruins of the current world order and discusses where we go next, with journalist Clare English and David Hume Institute Director, Susan Murray.

A new international economic order is taking hold. Trade blocs, tariff wars, economic sanctions, and national champions are in; nationalism, anti-immigration movements and the far-right are on the rise. Liberalism is being rejected as the status quo of the past fifty years crumbles. What remains in its wake?

The discussion reveals the seismic shifts that are shaping our world, how the rising economic power of Asia is creating a new global ‘middle class’ in the greatest reshuffle of incomes since the Industrial Revolution. We discuss the fight ahead: as plutocracy returns, global war threatens, and a new system silently shapes our nations.

“The Great Global Transformation, Milanovic provides an invaluable guide to the new 21st century.”

About the author

Branko Milanovic is Senior Scholar at the Stone Center on Socio-Economic Inequality at the City University of New York and Visiting Professor at the International Inequalities Institute at the London School of Economics and Political Science.

Formerly Lead Economist in the World Bank’s research department, he is a world-leading scholar of income inequality, and was the co-creator of The Elephant Curve, also known as the Lakner-Milanovic curve. He is the author of numerous books, including Visions of Inequality, Capitalism, Alone and Global Inequality: A New Approach for the Age of Globalisation.