
Milanovic's groundbreaking exploration of global wealth disparity uses literary characters like Mr. Darcy to illuminate complex economic realities. By challenging traditional theories, this accessible yet rigorous analysis reveals how policy choices - not immutable laws - shape inequality's profound impact on our societies.
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What if the most important decision affecting your lifetime earnings wasn't your career choice, educational achievements, or work ethic-but something entirely beyond your control? Three generations of the Obama family reveal this uncomfortable truth. Hussein Onyango Obama, working as a British manservant in colonial Kenya, earned 66 times less than his British employers. His son Barack Sr. studied at Harvard when the US-Kenya income gap stood at thirteen to one. By the time his grandson became President, that gap had ballooned to thirty to one. This isn't a story about individual success-it's a story about how geography shapes destiny in ways we rarely acknowledge. Global inequality has become one of the defining challenges of our era, yet most of us struggle to grasp its true scale and implications. We see headlines about billionaires and poverty, but the deeper patterns remain invisible. Where you're born now determines your economic fate more powerfully than any other factor, creating a world where talent in Lagos faces entirely different prospects than mediocrity in London. The greatest transformation in global inequality over two centuries has been the shift from class-based to location-based inequality. In Marx's time, global inequality was driven primarily by class differences within countries, while differences between nations' average incomes were modest. By 2000, this had fundamentally reversed-global inequality had become almost entirely (80%) driven by location. Being born in a rich country now matters far more for lifetime income prospects than one's position within that country's income distribution.
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