“AN INCREDIBLE EXPLOSION OF INEQUALITY” – with Renowned Economist, Branko Milanovic

We are witnessing a COVID-19 driven explosion in inequality. This
week, Oxfam released its annual report, Inequality Kills, showing
that the pandemic is killing at least 1 person every 4 seconds,
while the ten richest men have doubled their fortunes during this
same pandemic. This is the biggest single increase in billionaire
wealth in recorded history. Max and Nadia talk to Branko
Milanovic, world-renowned authority on inequality, to find out
why.


Branko is a Senior Scholar at City University of New York’s Stone
Center on Socio-economic Inequality and Centennial Professor at
London School of Economics' International Inequalities Institute
(III). He was the Lead Economist in the World Bank’s Research
Department for almost 20 years, before leaving to write his book
on global income inequality, Worlds Apart (2005). He
has since authored three more award-winning books – The
Haves and the Have-nots (2011), Global
Inequality (2016) and Capitalism, Alone  (2019).


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If you’re joining us on EQUALS for the first time, tune in to our
earlier interviews – from talking with the award-winning
journalist Gary Younge on what we can learn from Martin Luther
King Jr to fight inequality, to best-selling author Anand
Giridharadas on whether we need billionaires, Zambian music
artist PilAto on the power of music, thinker Ece Temelkuran on
beating fascism, climate activist Hindou Ibrahim on nature, and
the Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund
Kristalina Georgieva on what comes after the pandemic.


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