The Great Global Transformation
Autor Branko Milanovicen Limba Engleză Hardback – 6 noi 2025
Prin apariția volumului The Great Global Transformation, Branko Milanovic marchează o nouă etapă în analiza sa asupra economiei politice mondiale, introducând conceptul de „liberalism național de piață”. Putem afirma că lucrarea reprezintă o evoluție firească a cercetărilor sale anterioare din Global Inequality, unde autorul explora dinamica inegalității la scară largă. În acest nou titlu, atenția se mută pe modul în care Marile Puteri — SUA și China — reacționează la schimbările seismice ale veniturilor globale, ambele retrăgându-se către protecționism, deși din motive și cu rezultate sociale radical diferite. Remarcăm o structură riguroasă a argumentației, organizată în cinci capitole esențiale care pornesc de la ascensiunea Asiei și ajung la dilemele naționalismului și proprietății. Un punct de interes major este capitolul dedicat elitelor, unde Milanovic definește noua clasă conducătoare americană ca fiind formată din „homoploutia cu acreditări” (bogăție bazată atât pe capital, cât și pe educație înaltă), în contrast cu elita chineză, definită prin simbioza dintre proprietatea capitalului și apartenența la Partidul Comunist Chinez. Cartea acoperă aceeași arie tematică precum China and the Future of Globalization de Professor Grzegorz W. Kolodko, dar cu o abordare mai centrată pe datele de venit și pe transformarea structurii de clasă, oferind o perspectivă sociologică mai profundă asupra populismului contemporan. Spre deosebire de Visions of Inequality, care era o lucrare de istorie a gândirii economice, The Great Global Transformation este un diagnostic al prezentului. Autorul analizează dacă convergența economică duce inevitabil la conflict și cum noul sistem multipolar reconfigurează ordinea mondială după decenii de politici neoliberale. Este un text dens, bazat pe cercetări originale, care evită generalizările în favoarea unei analize precise a mecanismelor care conduc la nemulțumirea populistă globală.
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Specificații
ISBN-10: 0241678935
Pagini: 288
Dimensiuni: 165 x 240 x 30 mm
Greutate: 0.48 kg
Editura: Penguin Books
Colecția Allen Lane
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Această lucrare este esențială pentru cei care doresc să înțeleagă mecanismele din spatele tensiunilor dintre SUA și China. Cititorul va câștiga o perspectivă clară asupra modului în care inegalitatea internă dictează politica externă a marilor puteri. Branko Milanovic oferă argumente solide pentru a înțelege de ce globalizarea, așa cum o cunoșteam, se transformă într-un sistem de blocuri naționale concurente.
Despre autor
Branko Milanovic este un economist de renume mondial, cercetător principal la Luxembourg Income Study Center și profesor vizitator la City University of New York. Recunoscut drept unul dintre cei mai importanți analiști ai inegalității globale, și-a petrecut mare parte din carieră la Banca Mondială, unde a dezvoltat metodologii inovatoare pentru măsurarea distribuției veniturilor la nivel transnațional. Opera sa, care include titluri de referință precum Global Inequality, se distinge prin utilizarea unor seturi vaste de date istorice pentru a explica fenomenele economice contemporane.
Notă biografică
Descriere scurtă
A Financial Times Book of the Year
'Simultaneously panoramic and telescopic' Daniel Markovitz
'A penetrating analysis from the world's foremost authority on economic inequality' Peter Turchin
'More than anyone alive, Branko Milanovic was likely to propound a grand theory of our perplexing global moment... With brilliance, panache, and reliability, he has done it' Samuel Moyn
Global neoliberalism is on its last legs, while a new international economic order is taking hold. Trade blocs, tariff wars, economic sanctions, and national champions are in; nationalism, anti-immigration movements and the far-right are on the rise. Liberalism is being rejected by the civic realm, as the status quo of the past fifty years crumbles. What remains in its wake?
Drawing on original research, leading economist Branko Milanovic reveals the seismic shifts that are shaping our world. He details the facts: how the rising economic power of Asia is creating a new global 'middle class' in the greatest reshuffle of incomes since the Industrial Revolution. He explores our fears: why are we becoming increasingly unhappy, when the world is becoming richer and more equal? And he shows us the fight ahead: as plutocracy returns, global war threatens, and a new system silently shapes our nations, driving malcontent to breaking point. In The Great Global Transformation, Milanovic provides an invaluable guide to the new 21st century.
'A must read for anyone concerned about the future of the world order' Gordon Brown
'Everyone who wants to understand these titanic changes must read this book' Martin Jacques
Cuprins
Introduction
1. The Rise of Asia
Countries
People
2. Convergence and Conflict
Does international trade lead to peace or war?
Why are we afraid of convergence?
Complexity of the world
3. The Elites
America’s new ruling class: homoploutia with credentials
China’s new ruling class: capital ownership with CPC membership
4. National Market Liberalism
National market liberalism
Statism
Multipolarity: in an uncertain struggle
5. Nationalism, Greed and Property
Bibliography
Acknowledgements
Notes
Index
Recenzii
“Around the world, politicians from Donald Trump to Xi Jinping are attempting to respond to a deep hostility in their respective countries toward those who have benefited most from globalization. Milanović’s provocative book offers one of the best explanations for why this revolt lies behind the rise of illiberalism and the return of nationalism.”
“For Milanovic, greed is the iron cage of our times, and our future is bleak. . . . His body of research, as a whole, has firmly established the importance of tackling inequality from a critical, world historical perspective. The Great Global Transformation provides a useful and accessible summary of his work.”
“In his fine new book The Great Global Transformation, the former World Bank economist Branko Milanovic describes how our political and economic order is now coming to an end. China and the global south now account for more of the world economy than the US, Japan, Europe, and the many others put together that he terms the “capitalist core”; at the same time, capitalism is being redefined. The elites who prospered under the regimes shaped by Reagan and Thatcher are now redefining their nations into narrower, meaner, harsher societies, ditching the old commitments to multiculturalism and equality for women. They are forcing upon the rest of us capitalism without secure contracts, unions, or even the HR department.”
“Milanovic draws parallels in political trends across multiple countries and points out that what seems like flip-flopping or policy reversals by Xi and others may be 'course corrections' towards a long-term goal. He notes that U.S. nostalgia for post-war dominance is an exception, not the norm. Merchants who sell or source internationally may find Milanovic’s insights fresh and useful as they navigate growth.”
“Milanovic postulates an implicit premise: democratic systems cannot survive being stretched across larger swathes of the global income distribution without experiencing severe political stress. . . . his findings are incredibly striking and powerful. To my mind the facts he marshals must now stand as the basic parameters of any political and historical attempt to explain the ‘backlash’ against neoliberalism and the global economic system that defined the period between 1979 and 2016.”
“I don’t know by what miracle he managed to make it pose for so long, given the spasms and crises that are shaking it, but Branko Milanović’s portrait of our world is very well done. . . . often remarkable. It is striking, in particular, how closely Washington’s latest moves. . . mirror its analysis of the political phenomenon represented by Donald Trump.”
“Milanović is an extraordinary thinker who frequently writes some of the most compelling accounts of globalization’s fallout that exists, mapping with devastating precision who won and who lost from the great opening of the world economy. Milanović is known, also importantly, for understanding the political convulsions that followed as a consequence: Brexit, Trump, the collapse of centrist parties across Europe. His latest book, The Great Global Transformation, extends this analysis into what comes next. . . . The book is, in many ways, his attempt to name the era we’ve already entered but haven’t yet been able to start speaking coherently about. And it’s excellent at that.”
“An excellent guide to the new global order.”
“Milanovic sees today's global economy through a distinctly Marxist lens, and that's precisely what makes this book so compelling. Whether you agree or not, his framework is sharp, provocative, and impossible to ignore in a world where markets and nations are increasingly entangled.”