Book presentation by Branko Milanović
Venue: AK Education Centre, Large Hall, Theresianumgasse 16-18, 1040 Vienna
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Who has benefited and who has been harmed by globalisation? What are the effects on global income inequality? What role does place of birth play in the distribution of income? And what does all this have to do with elephants?
Branko Milanović, one of the world's most prominent distribution economists, brings these and other questions together in his new book and focuses his analysis on the determinants of the global distribution of labour and capital income. As always, he does this on the basis of comprehensive analyses of data and facts as well as a large number of scientific studies.
About the author
Branko Milanović is currently Visiting Presidential Professor at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York and Senior Scholar at the LIS Cross-National Data Centre in Luxembourg. Previously, he was Chief Economist at the World Bank for almost 20 years. He has been working on issues of income inequality and globalisation since his doctoral thesis.
Programme
18:00 Introduction and welcome
Book presentation The Unequal World: Migration, the One Percent and the Future of the Middle Class.
18:45 Comments and discussion
Miriam Rehm (AK Vienna)
Werner Raza (ÖFSE)
Afterwards:
Presentation of the Bruno Kreisky Prize for the Political Book 2016
The Bruno Kreisky Prize for the Political Book 2016 goes to the distribution economist Branko Milanović for his book „Die ungleiche Welt. Migration, the One Percent and the Future of the Middle Class“.
Laudatory speech and award presentation by Hannes Swoboda (jury chairman)
Moderation: Robert Misik (Bruno Kreisky Forum)
The event will be held in English!
Organiser:
Chamber of Labour for Vienna
Bruno Kreisky Forum
Economics of Inequality (WU)
Department of Economics (WU)
ÖFSE