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The Great Escape

Health, Wealth, and the Origins of Inequality

by Angus Deaton

2013 376 pages eng

A Nobel Prize–winning 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 used to be. People are healthier, wealthier, and live longer. Yet the escapes from destitution…

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