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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      14 July 2022
      28 July 2022
      ISBN:
      9781108769655
      9781108477345
      9781108708586
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108769655
      Dimensions:
      (229 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.7kg, 354 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (229 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.5kg, 354 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Economics, Economics: General Interest, History, Economic Development and Growth, Economic History
      Series:
      New Approaches to Economic and Social History
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    Subjects:
    Economics, Economics: General Interest, History, Economic Development and Growth, Economic History
    Series:
    New Approaches to Economic and Social History
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    How has human development evolved during the last 150 years of globalization and economic growth? How has human development been distributed across countries? How do developing countries compare to developed countries? Do social systems matter for wellbeing? Are there differences in the performance of developing regions over time? Employing a capabilities approach, Human Development and the Path to Freedom addresses these key questions in the context of modern economic growth and globalization from c.1870 to the present. Leandro Prados de la Escosura shows that health, access to knowledge, standards of living, and civil and political freedom can substitute for GDP per head as more accurate measures of our wellbeing.

    Reviews

    ‘… a go-to source for comprehensive overviews of trends in important measures of human and social development. … Highly recommended.’

    D. Mitch Source: Choice

    ‘Prados' work represents an enormous contribution to a new quantitative global history of development, which provides eye-opening data and explanations.’

    Markus Lamp Source: Vierteljahrschrift für Sozial- und Wirtschaftsgeschichte

    ‘A handy global comparative reference of essential characteristics of development beyond the GDP in the last 150 years for economic and social historians … this book will benefit scholars and students for years to come.’

    Sakari Saaritsa Source: Economic History Association

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