Branko Milanović

Branko Milanović (Serbian: Милановић; born October 24, 1953) is a Serbian-American economist. A development and inequality specialist, he is since January 2014 visiting presidential professor at City University of New York Graduate Center and an affiliated senior scholar at the Luxembourg Income Study (LIS). He was formerly lead economist in the World Bank's research department, visiting professor at University of Maryland and Johns Hopkins University. Between 2003 and 2005 he was senior associate at Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in Washington. He remained an adjunct scholar with the Endowment until early 2010. He did his Ph. D. at University of Belgrade in 1987 with the dissertation (published as a book in 1990 ) on economic inequality in Yugoslavia, using for the first time micro data from Yugoslav household surveys.

Throughout his career he has done a number of publications, including some 40 papers for the World Bank. mainly on world inequality and poverty. He is the author of the first work assessing global income inequality between individuals ("Economic Journal", January 2002). His 2005 book ("Worlds Apart") about global income disparity introduced three concepts of international inequality: unweighted inequality between mean country incomes, population-weighted inequality between mean country incomes, and global income inequality between all individuals in the world. He defined inequality possibility frontier in a 2006 paper on inequality in Byzantium ("Review of Income and Wealth", 2006). The concept, later expanded to 29 pre-industrial economies in a joint work with Jeffrey Williamson and Peter Lindert ("Economic Journal", March 2011), was considered by The Economist to "contain the germ of an important advance in thinking about inequality". Milanovic is the author of 2011's The Haves and the Have-Nots, a book of essays on income distribution; The Globalist selected The Haves and the Have-Nots as number one on its "top books of 2011". Milanovic currently serves on the advisory board for Academics Stand Against Poverty (ASAP). In August 2013, he was included by Foreign Policy among the top 100 "twitterati" to follow. In November 2014, he became external fellow in Center for Global Development in Washington.

He has been writing the blog globalinequality since May 2014.

His new book Global inequality: A New Approach for the Age of Globalization is to be published in April 2016.

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. Upjohn Institute.
• (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 Brief and Idiosyncratic History of Global Inequality, 2010, Basic Books, New York.
• Global inequality: A New Approach for the Age of Globalization, 2016, Harvard University Press.

External links

• CarnegieEndowment.org
• globalinequality blog
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