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Acknowledgments vii
Prologue: The Promise of the Twentieth Century 1
Introduction: A Topic Whose Time Has Come 3
Setting the Stage
The Three Concepts of Inequality Defined 7
Other Differences between the Concepts 12
International and World Inequality Compared 20
Inequality Among Countries
Rising Differences in Per Capita Incomes 31
Regional Convergence, Divergence, or..."Vergence" 45
The Shape of International GDP Per Capita Distribution 51
Winners and Losers: Increasing Dominance of the West 61
Global Inequality
Concept 2 Inequality: Decreasing in the Past Twenty Years 85
High Global Inequality: No Trend? 101
A World without a Middle Class 128
Concluding Comments
The Three Concepts of Inequality in Historical Perspective 139
Why Does Global Inequality Matter and What to Do about It? 149
Appendixes 1-7 163
Notes 195
References 213
Index of Authors 223
Index of Subjects 225
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Henry Hernandez
reviewed Worlds apart on January 27, 2013
Worlds apart
I would say that this book is much-needed. It is heavy on quantitative methods, and so it does require attention, but it is well-written and generally easy to understand. Milanovic clarifies the debate over trends in global (and international) inequality by distinguishing between three approaches to analyzing inequality. This is really useful and allows for a much richer picture of trends in inequality, instead of just whether it's increasing or decreasing, which are both oversimplifications. Ultimately, a truly global analysis of inequality does improve upon population-weighted international inequality, but I will be interested to see how trends progress in more recent data.
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