The Great Escape: Health, Wealth, and the Origins of Inequality by Angus DeatonA Nobel Prizewinning economist tells the remarkable story of how the world has grown healthier, wealthier, but also more unequal over the past two and half centuries The world is a better place than it used to be. People are healthier, wealthier, and live longer. Yet the escapes from destitution by so many has left gaping inequalities between people and nations. In The Great Escape, Nobel Prizewinning economist Angus Deatonone of the foremost experts

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