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Published by Cambridge University Press, 2004, 2004
Seller: Steven Wolfe Books, Newton Centre, MA, U.S.A.
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.
Published by Alianza Editorial, Madrid, 2008
ISBN 10: 8420669016ISBN 13: 9788420669014
Seller: Perolibros S.L., Madrid, Spain
Book First Edition
Rústica con solapas. Condition: Muy Bien. Primera edición. Traducción del inglés de Sandra Chaparro. -- 223 p.; notas: p 171-192 ; bibliogr.: p 193-214 ; índ. analít.: p 215-223.
Published by Chicago & London: University of Chicago Press, 1992., 1992
ISBN 10: 0226301125ISBN 13: 9780226301129
Seller: Ted Kottler, Bookseller, Redondo Beach, CA, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. ix, 491 pp; figs.; tables. Original cloth. Embossed stamp on title page, else Near Fine, in near fine dust jacket. The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 1993 was awarded jointly to Robert W. Fogel and Douglass C. North 'for having renewed research in economic history by applying economic theory and quantitative methods in order to explain economic and institutional change.' 'Offering new research on strategic factors in the development of the nineteenth century American economylabor, capital, and political structurethe contributors to this volume employ a methodology innovated by Robert W. Fogel, one of the leading pioneers of the 'new economic history.' Fogel's work is distinguished by the application of economic theory and large-scale quantitative evidence to long-standing historical questions. These sixteen essays reveal, by example, the continuing vitality of Fogel's approach. The authors use an astonishing variety of data, including genealogies, the U.S. federal population census manuscripts, manumission and probate records, firm accounts, farmers' account books, and slave narratives, to address collectively market integration and its impact on the lives of Americans. The evolution of markets in agricultural and manufacturing labor is considered first; that concerning capital and credit follows. The demography of free and slave populations is the subject of the third section, and the final group of papers examines the extra-market institutions of governments and unions.'.
Published by Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2000, 2000
Seller: Steven Wolfe Books, Newton Centre, MA, U.S.A.
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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.