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Who's the richest person on earth, ever? Does indeed where you were born affect how much money youll earn over a lifetime? How would we realize? Why, beyond the idle interest, do these questions even matter? In The Haves and the Have-Nots, Branko Milanovic, one of the worlds leading experts on wealth, poverty, and the difference that separates them, explains these and other mysteries of how wealth is unevenly spread throughout our world, now and through time. Milanovic uses record, literature and tales direct out of todays newspapers, to discuss one of the major divisions inside our social lives: between the haves and the have-nots. He reveals just how abundant Elizabeth Bennet's suitor Mr. Darcy really was; how much Anna Karenina gained by falling in love; how wealthy early Romans compare to todays super-rich; where in Kenyan income syndication was Obamas grandfather; how we should think about Marxism in a modern world; and how location where one is born determines his wealth. He moves beyond mere entertainment to explain why inequality matters, how it damage our economics potential customers, and how it can threaten the foundations of the social order that people take for granted. Bold, interesting, and illuminating, The Haves and the Have-Nots teaches us not only how to take into account inequality, but why we ought to.
