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Verlag: Cambridge University Press, 2004, 2004
Anbieter: Steven Wolfe Books, Newton Centre, MA, USA
Fogel, Robert W., 1926-2013. The escape from hunger and premature death, 1700-2100: Europe, America, and the Third World. Cambridge University Press, 2004, xx, 191pp., PAPERBACK, very good. Cambridge studies in population, economy, and society in past time, 38. Nobel laureate Robert Fogel's compelling new study examines health, nutrition and technology over the last three centuries and beyond. Throughout most of human history, chronic malnutrition has been the norm. During the past three centuries, however, a synergy between improvements in productive technology and in human physiology has enabled humans to more than double their average longevity and to increase their average body size by over 50 per cent. Larger, healthier humans have contributed to the acceleration of economic growth and technological change, resulting in reduced economic inequality, declining hours of work and a corresponding increase in leisure time. Increased longevity has also brought increased demand for health care. Professor Fogel argues that health care should be viewed as the growth industry of the twenty-first century and systems of financing it should be reformed. His book will be essential reading for all those interested in economics, demography, history and health care policy. - CONTENTS: 1. The persistence of misery in Europe before 1900 -- 2. Why the twentieth century was so remarkable -- 3. Tragedies and miracles in the Third World -- 4. Prospects for the twenty-first century -- 5. Problems of equity in health care -- Postscript : how long can we live? 9780521004886 ISBN 0521004888.
Verlag: Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2000, 2000
Anbieter: Steven Wolfe Books, Newton Centre, MA, USA
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Fogel, Robert W., 1926-2013. The fourth great awakening & the future of egalitarianism. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2000, with 1st printing number line 12345, 383pp., very good dust-jacket, very good black half-cloth with blue boards. INSCRIBED on half-title: To (first name only) with affection and SIGNED Enid and Bob 5/14/00 (Enid's name added in different hand) (Fogel married Enid in 1949). 9780226256627 ISBN 0226256626.