What These Early-20st-Century Scholars Got Right About 21st-Century Politics

What These Early-20st-Century Scholars Got Right About 21st-Century Politics

Vox.com 1.10.18

Opinion-editorial by Branko Milanovic, a visiting presidential professor and senior scholar at the Stone Center on Socio-Economic Inequality at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. Milanovic argues that the period preceding WWI is most similar to period we currently live in post global financial crisis of the past decade — and we have much to learn from the social scientists of that period about inequality and democracy.