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Publisher:
Cambridge University Press
Online publication date:
July 2022
Print publication year:
2022
Online ISBN:
9781108769655
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108769655
Subjects:
Economics, Economics: General Interest, History, Economic Development and Growth, Economic History
Series:
New Approaches to Economic and Social History
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Book description

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.

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‘… 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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