No but seriously the Milanovic book is an important response to those who out of racist imperialist chauvinism say that they don't have to study the depths of third world poverty because all they need to know about poverty they can learn by looking outside their window and whose only recognition of the dynamics of international inequality comes in their ambivalent responses to the immigration crisis. Even if one just considers China and India, their higher relative growth rates does not mean that the income gap between them and the imperialist countries is not growing in absolute terms. When you look at the system as a whole, jeez, Jeffrey Sachs and Ha-Joon Chang are more progressive than the so-called first world progressive economists or even "Marxists".
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