The great escape : health, wealth, and the origins of inequality / Angus Deaton.
Description: xv, 360 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmISBN: 9780691153544; 069115354XSubject(s): Income distribution | World healthLOC classification: HC79. | I5D43 2013
Contents:
Introduction : what this book is about -- The wellbeing of the world -- Life and death. From prehistory to 1945 ; Escaping death in the tropics ; Health in the modern world -- Money. Material wellbeing in the United States ; Globalization and the greatest escape -- Help. How to help those left behind -- Postscript : what comes next?
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| HC79. E5J298 2011 Prosperity without growth : | HC79. F3S46 Poverty and famines : | HC79. I5B97 2024 The inequality of wealth : why it matters and how to fix it / | HC79. I5D43 2013 The great escape : | HC79. K75 2010 One illness away : | HC79. P6A27 2009 Absolute poverty and global justice : | HC79. P6.D86 An End to injustice |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction : what this book is about -- The wellbeing of the world -- Life and death. From prehistory to 1945 ; Escaping death in the tropics ; Health in the modern world -- Money. Material wellbeing in the United States ; Globalization and the greatest escape -- Help. How to help those left behind -- Postscript : what comes next?