Economic inequality has become one of the most important themes in the social sciences. The debate has revolved around two basic models. Was Kuznets correct in his prediction that inequality declines with economic growth, or was Piketty, along with others in the Berkeley/Paris/Oxford group, correct to counter that capitalism without severe constraints inevitably leads to increasing inequality? The resolution will depend on long-term historical analysis. In Global Inequality, Milanovic proposed new models to analyze the social, economic, political, and historical factors that influence changes in inequality over time and space. In Capitalism, Alone, he changes direction to examine what patterns of capitalism and inequality will look like in the twenty-first century and beyond, as well as how inequality might be reduced without violence.

经济不平等已成为社会科学中最重要的主题之一。辩论围绕两个基本模型展开。库兹涅茨（Kuznets）是正确的预测，即不平等会随着经济增长而下降，还是派克蒂（Piketty）与伯克利/巴黎/牛津（Oxford）团体的其他人一起，正确地对付没有严重限制的资本主义不可避免地导致不平等加剧的说法？解决方案将取决于长期的历史分析。在“全球不平等”中，米兰诺维奇提出了新的模型来分析影响不平等随时间和空间变化的社会，经济，政治和历史因素。在资本主义中，一个人，他改变了方向，研究了二十一世纪及以后的资本主义和不平等状况，以及在没有暴力的情况下如何减少不平等。