* The Great Global Transformation
The United States, China, and the Remaking of the World Economic Order, Branko Milanovic >>
https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/G/bo269830239.html

* The U.S., China, and the Remaking of the World Economic Order
"After unprecedented economic growth during the 20th century, is the U.S. losing its place as a world power? How have China’s economic rise and its growing class of uber-wealthy elites shaken up its society? How are the seismic changes to both countries reshuffling the global economic order?" >>
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The Great Global Transformation

From the essential chronicler of the world economy, a portrait of the Great Powers in transition. The world’s two great economic powers are on opposite trajectories. In the United States, decades of neoliberal policies produced a small class of rich elites and gutted the middle class. In China, the same global forces have created a massive new upper class. The result is the greatest reshuffling of global incomes since the Industrial Revolution—a dramatic shakeup of each country’s political order. As the two powers retreat from one another, the implications for their futures, and for the world economy, are uncertain. In The Great Global Transformation, acclaimed economist Branko Milanovic draws on original research to chart how these seismic shifts will shape the next century of the global economy. As both the US and China retreat into protectionism, Milanovic shows how a new and multipolar world order will follow—and how rising nationalism will have dramatically different effects on the two countries. And he shows us the fight ahead: as plutocracy returns, global war threatens, and a new system silently shapes our nations, driving populist discontent to the breaking point. A worthy successor to Capitalism, Alone and his other landmark works, Milanovic’s new book announces the arrival of a new era he terms “national market liberalism,” in which liberalism survives in domestic economies, but not necessarily in the social arena. The Great Global Transformation is Milanovic’s indispensable account of the new twenty-first century now underway.  

University of Chicago Press

"If we look at poverty or literacy figures, "the world is better" today than it was at the end of the 20th century, but "inequality is also higher in many places," and this "creates several problems." This is the warning issued by economist Branko Milanovic in a conversation with Agenda Pública.

The senior scholar at the Stone Center on Socio-Economic Inequality at the City University of New York and visiting professor at the LSE International Inequalities Institute warns that "neoliberalization has monetized many activities that used to be free", such as health care and education. "When we compare monetary incomes now and in the past without considering that essential goods like housing, health, and education have become much more expensive, the comparison becomes misleading," he asserts.

After devoting much of his career to analyzing inequality, he argues that it creates a political problem and undermines democracy itself. As he stresses, "when income and wealth become highly concentrated, political power tends to move toward those who have money, and the system becomes hypocritical." "It is an ostensible democracy but such that the rich rule," he says.

Likewise, the former chief economist of the World Bank’s Research Department maintains that with the first Trump administration began "the end of neoliberal globalization," while emphasizing that neoliberalism persists "domestically." "Under Trump we see reductions in taxes, deregulation, and the reduction in the size, or at least in importance, of government, and expanded production of oil and gas without environmental constraints. This is national market liberalism: neoliberal in the domestic economic arena, but not in international policy."

https://agendapublica.es/noticia/20511/branko-milanovic-when-wealth-become-highly-concentrated-system-becomes-hypocritical

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Branko Milanovic: "When wealth become highly concentrated, the system becomes hypocritical"

After devoting his career to analyzing inequality, the Serbo-American economist warns that "political power tends to move toward those who have money," and that democracy ends up being "ostensible." In a conversation with 'Agenda Pública' vice president Rodrigo Pinedo, he also emphasizes that "globalization has been coming to an end on the external front" since the first Trump administration, but that "neoliberalism is not ending domestically."

"Several of the book’s underlying assumptions may be considered inaccurate or incorrect, such as that neoliberalism functioned on the principle of free trade (it did not) or that, during neoliberalism, the economy was insulated from politics (in fact, it was insulated from democracy). These assumptions spring from the book’s specific ontological premises about human nature and capitalism, as well as author’s belief in historical determinism. Hence his (not so optimistic) prediction that national market liberalism will linger.

Nevertheless, the book is a worthwhile study. Milanović’s analysis is enriched by important insights from history and sociology, especially from classical authors such as Lenin, Rosa Luxemburg, Karl Polanyi, and, for economists, the indispensable Joseph Schumpeter. Whatever premises it originates from, the book is based on diligent work on empirical data, and produces a strong socio-economic analysis of the Chinese and Western elite. Most notable are his proposals of so-called circular migration (allowing foreigners to move on a temporary basis) to solve the “impossible trinity” of globalisation, high income inequality and the absence of structural migration; and the concept of homoploutia. Both are original and useful analytical tools which social scientists can take up in service of understanding capitalism’s transformations."

https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/lsereviewofbooks/2025/10/29/book-review-capitalism-neoliberalism-the-great-global-transformation-national-market-liberalism-in-a-multipolar-world-branko-milanovic/

#Capitalism #Neoliberalism #NationalMarketLiberalism #China #USA

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The Great Global Transformation by Branko Milanović explores China's economic rise, a new elite class & neoliberalism being replaced by a new international order

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