One of the world's leading experts on global income distribution walks us through the quirks of wealth through the ages. Who is the richest person in the world, ever? Does where you were born affect how much money you'll earn over a lifetime? How would we know? Why - beyond idle curiosity - do these questions even matter? In "The Haves and the Have-Nots", Branko Milanovic, one ...(展开全部)

Who is the richest person in the world, ever? Does where you were born affect how much money you’ll earn over a lifetime? How would we know? Why—beyond the idle curiosity—do these questions even matter? In The Haves and the Have-Nots , Branko Milanovic, one of the world’s leading experts on wealth, poverty, and the gap that separates them, explains these and other mysteries of...(展开全部)

Who is the richest person in the world, ever? Does where you were born affect how much money you’ll earn over a lifetime? How would we know? Why—beyond the idle curiosity—do these questions even matter? In The Haves and the Have-Nots , Branko Milanovic, one of the world’s leading experts on wealth, poverty, and the gap that separates them, explains these and other mysteries of...(展开全部)

One of the world's leading experts on global income distribution walks us through the quirks of wealth through the ages. Who is the richest person in the world, ever? Does where you were born affect how much money you'll earn over a lifetime? How would we know? Why - beyond idle curiosity - do these questions even matter? In "The Haves and the Have-Nots", Branko Milanovic, one ...(展开全部)

布兰科·米兰诺维奇(Branko Milanovic)，卢森堡收入研究中心资深研究员，纽约城市大学研究生院首席客座教授。曾任世界银行研究部首席经济学家，并建立世界银行“All the Ginis”数据库。

布兰科·米兰诺维奇(Branko Milanovic)，卢森堡收入研究中心资深研究员，纽约城市大学研究生院首席客座教授。曾任世界银行研究部首席经济学家，并建立世界银行“All the Ginis”数据库。

Can God create a stone too heavy for him to lift? Can time have a beginning? Which came first, the chicken or the egg? Riddles, paradoxes, conundrums--for millennia the human mind has found such knotty logical problems both perplexing and irresistible. Now Roy Sorensen offers the first narrative history of paradoxes, a fascinating and eye-opening account that extends from the a...(展开全部)

‘An eye-opening account of superyachts, the billionaires who buy them, and what it all means for the rest of us … [a] droll and timely analysis of extreme wealth’ – Guardian Who are America's oligarchs? What do they want? How do they operate? Is there anything that can be done to contain their power? The ultrarich hold more of America’s wealth than they did in the heyday of the...(展开全部)