Faultlines are explored in Pranab Bardhan's new book, titled something like Giants with Feet of Clay. Out from Princeton University Press this year. Milanovic points out that even with China's relatively higher growth rate, the absolute gap between its GDP per capita and the average Western GDP/capita grew over the last twenty years. Doubtful that China will continue to grow at such a relatively higher rate, and given that China is even more unequal than the West the difference in median income is probably even bigger absolutely than Milanovic reports. It's true that servants are more affordable in poor Asia, but it hardly makes up for the fact that the top 5% of Indian income (PPP corrected) has roughly the same income as the bottom 5% in the US. Just as people have a lot of trouble coming to grips with global warming, there is systematic denial of the privileges that come from being born with citizenship in a wealthy prosperous country. LR
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