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Robert William Fogel

The Escape from Hunger and Premature Death, 1700 2100

Europe, America, and the Third World

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Nobel laureate Robert Fogel's compelling new study examines health, nutrition and technology from 1700 to 2100. Although throughout most of human history, chronic malnutrition has been the norm, a synergy between improvements in productive technology and human physiology has enabled humans to more than double their average longevity and to increase their body size by over fifty percent over the past three centuries. 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 l… Mehr

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Weitere Autoren: De Vries, Jan (Hrsg.) / Smith, Richard (Hrsg.)
  • ISBN: 978-0-521-80878-1
  • EAN: 9780521808781
  • Produktnummer: 1340942
  • Verlag: Cambridge University Press
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2013
  • Seitenangabe: 216 S.
  • Masse: H23.5 cm x B15.7 cm x D1.7 cm 491 g
  • Abbildungen: HC gerader Rücken kaschiert
  • Gewicht: 491

Über den Autor


Robert William Fogel won the Nobel Prize for Economics in 1993. He is the Charles R. Walgreen Distinguished Service Professor of American Institutions in the Graduate School of Business and Director of the Center for Population Economics in the University of Chicago. His numerous publications include Time on the Cross: The Economics of Negro Slavery (with Stanley L. Engerman) and The Fourth Great Awakening and the Futureof Egalitarianism.

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