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Eisenhower professor of international affairs, professor of economics and international affairs at the woodrow wilson school and author of the great escape. Health, wealth, and the origins of inequality, is a thoughtful and optimistic consideration on why some nations are wealthy, and thus healthy, and why others are not. Like economists focus on income, public health scholars focus on mortality and morbidity, and demographers focus on births, deaths, and the size of populations. Professor angus deaton will describe the dramatic scope and speed of that progress, why we are living longer, healthier lives, and how progress has created inequalities that can have positive or. A nobel prizewinning economist tells the remarkable story of how the world has grown healthier, wealthier, but also more unequal over the past two and half centuries the world is a better place than it. All of these factors contribute to wellbeing, but none of them is wellbeing. The great divergence the most famous and most obvious case sustained economic growth, which began in northwest europe between 1750 and 1850 sowed the seeds of the increases in material living standards and increases in life expectancies pulling these leading countries away from their neighbors, and the rest of the world. Angus deaton, one of the worlds leading development economists, takes us on an extraordinary journeyfrom an age when almost everyone was poor and sick to one where most people have escaped these evilsand he tells us how the billion still trapped in extreme poverty can join in this great escape.
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