Branko Milanovic

Branko Milanovic is a visiting lecturer in law at Yale Law School. He also serves as a research professor and senior scholar at the Graduate Center, City University of New York. Milanovic obtained his Ph.D. in economics from the University of Belgrade with a dissertation on income inequality in Yugoslavia. He served as lead economist in the World Bank’s Research Department for almost 20 years, and taught at the School for Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University in Washington, D.C., University of Maryland, Universidad Carlos III in Madrid, and Institut Barcelona d’Estudis Internacionals in Barcelona.  

Milanovic’s main area of study is income inequality, in individual countries and globally, including in pre-industrial societies. He has published articles in the Economic Journal, Review of Economics and Statistics, and Journal of Economic Literature, among others. His book, “The Haves and the Have-nots” (2011) was selected by The Globalist as the 2011 Book of the Year. “Global Inequality” (2016) was awarded the Bruno Kreisky Prize for the best political book of 2016 and the Hans Matthöfer Prize in 2018. Milanovic was awarded (jointly with Mariana Mazzucato) the 2018 Leontief Prize for Advancing the Frontiers of Economic Knowledge. His most recent books are “Capitalism, Alone” (2019), “Visions of Inequality” (2023), and “The Great Global Transformation” (2025).