The Great Global Transformation: The United States, China, and the Remaking of the World Economic Order

Experts discuss Branko Milanovic's timely new book on the changing roles of the U.S. and China as global powers.

After unprecedented economic growth during the 20th century, is the U.S. losing its place as a world power? How have China’s economic rise and its growing class of uber-wealthy elites shaken up its society? How are the seismic changes to both countries reshuffling the global economic order? Are Trump, Xi Jinping, and Putin — all products of neoliberal globalization — leading its reversal? A panel of experts discusses questions raised in the new book by Branko Milanovic, author of Capitalism, Alone and other landmark works, who is a research professor at the Stone Center on Socio-Economic Inequality, CUNY Graduate Center.

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Featuring Qin Gao, professor of social policy and social work at Columbia University; Daniel Markovitz, professor at Yale Law School and author of The Meritocracy Trap; and Adam Tooze, professor of History of Columbia University and author of Shutdown: How Covid Shook the World Economy. Janet Gornick, professor of Political Science and Sociology and director of the Stone Center on Socio-Economic Inequality at the CUNY Graduate Center, moderates.