{"product_id":"visions-of-inequality-from-the-french-revolution-to-the-end-of-the-cold-war-paperback","title":"Visions of Inequality: From the French Revolution to the End of the Cold War - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eBranko Milanovic\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA \u003ci\u003eFinancial Times\u003c\/i\u003e Best Economics Book of the Year\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"An essential and insightful analysis of the history of economic inequality urgently relevant today...a groundbreaking work, bound to influence the economics profession and our worldview.\" --\u003ci\u003eLSE Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"A history of the changing ways economists have broached the subject [of inequality] since the French Revolution...[Milanovic] describes how Western economists were in thrall to an unholy combination of extremely simplistic assumptions and extremely complex mathematical models.\" --\u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"A timely book that brings the weight of the past to bear on one of the most pressing issues of our time...Milanovic is a clear and direct writer, unafraid of making strong judgements and with an idiosyncratic eye for detail. That makes for original, and sometimes amusingly wry, revelations.\" --\u003ci\u003eLiterary Review\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"How do you see income distribution in your time, and how and why do you expect it to change?\" Branko Milanovic imagines posing this question to six of history's most influential economists. Probing the works of these key thinkers in the context of their lives, Milanovic charts the evolution of the concept of inequality across the centuries. We cannot speak of inequality in general, he argues: any analysis of it is inextricably linked to a particular time and place. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eVisions of Inequality\u003c\/i\u003e takes us from François Quesnay, for whom social classes were prescribed by law, through Adam Smith, David Ricardo, and Karl Marx, who saw class as a purely economic category determined by one's relation to the means of production. Later, Vilfredo Pareto reconceived class in terms of elites versus the rest, while Simon Kuznets saw inequality arising from the urban-rural divide. Milanovic further explores why inequality receded from scholarship during the Cold War, before gaining renewed attention in economics today. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAn invaluable intellectual genealogy, \u003ci\u003eVisions of Inequality\u003c\/i\u003e brings nuanced insight to a hotly contested idea.\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 368\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.1 x 8.5 x 5.6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 09, 2025\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51964675096877,"sku":"9780674301573","price":23.35,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0938\/3185\/6429\/files\/visions-of-inequality-from-the-french-revolution-to-the-end-of-the-cold-war-paperback-4231458.webp?v=1775477106","url":"https:\/\/ishookbooks.com\/products\/visions-of-inequality-from-the-french-revolution-to-the-end-of-the-cold-war-paperback","provider":"iShook Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}