
Human Development and the Path to Freedom
1870 to the Present
Leandro Prados de la Escosura(Author)
Cambridge University Press
Published on 28. July 2022
Book
Hardback
354 pages
978-1-108-47734-5 (ISBN)
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.
Reviews / Votes
'... a go-to source for comprehensive overviews of trends in important measures of human and social development. ... Highly recommended.' D. Mitch, Choice 'Prados' work represents an enormous contribution to a new quantitative global history of development, which provides eye-opening data and explanations.' Markus Lamp, Vierteljahrschrift fuer 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, Economic History AssociationMore details
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Language
English
Place of publication
Cambridge
United Kingdom
Edition type
New edition
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
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Worked examples or Exercises
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 21 mm
Weight
640 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-108-47734-5 (9781108477345)
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Person
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.
Content
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.