The Great Escape : : Health, Wealth, and the Origins of Inequality /

The Great Escape : : Health, Wealth, and the Origins of Inequality / / Angus Deaton.

The world is a better place than it used to be. People are healthier, wealthier, and live longer. Yet the escapes from destitution by so many has left gaping inequalities between people and nations. In The Great Escape, Angus Deaton--one of the foremost experts on economic development and on poverty...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
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Deaton, Angus,
Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2013]
©2013
Year of Publication:2013
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (376 p.) :; 50 line illus.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Introduction: What This Book Is About
  • 1. The Wellbeing of the World
  • PART I. LIFE AND DEATH
  • 2. From Prehistory to 1945
  • 3. Escaping Death in the Tropics
  • 4. Health in the Modern World
  • PART II. MONEY
  • 5. Material Wellbeing in the United States
  • 6. Globalization and the Greatest Escape
  • PART III. HELP
  • 7. How to Help Those Left Behind
  • Postscript: What Comes Next?
  • Notes
  • Index

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