Leandro Prados de la Escosura (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid)

Human Development and the Path to Freedom

1870 to the Present

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Produktbeschreibung

A major new account of the evolution of human development from c.1870 to the present using measures of health, access to knowledge, standards of living, and civil and political freedom. Leandro Prados de la Escosura shows how these measures can substitute for GDP per head as a more accurate measure of wellbeing.

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Produktdetails

• New Approaches to Economic and Social History
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 250
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Juli 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 230mm x 156mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 518g
• ISBN-13: 9781108708586
• ISBN-10: 1108708587
• Artikelnr.: 63564969

Autorenporträt

Leandro Prados de la Escosura is Emeritus Professor of Economic History at Carlos III University. He is the author of Spanish Economic Growth, 1850-2015 (2017). He is the editor of Exceptionalism and Industrialisation: Britain and its European Rivals, 1688-1815 (2004) and former editor of the journal Revista de Historia Económica.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Introduction
Part I. An Aggregate View: 1. Augmented human development: What is it? How to measure it?
2. Trends in human development
3. World distribution of human development
Part II. The OECD and the Rest: 4. Human development in the OECD and the rest
5. Human development in Latin America
6. Human development in Africa
Postscript
Appendices.