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Informationen zum 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. Klappentext Nobel laureate Robert Fogels compelling new study examines health! nutrition and technology over the last three centuries and beyond. Chronic malnutrition is one reason why people in the past had smaller! weaker bodies and lived shorter lives than people do today. When better agriculture began to produce more food! people began to get bigger! healthier and to live longer. This process has contributed to economic growth and technological progress. Professor Fogels powerful study will be essential reading for all those interested in economics! demography! history and health care policy. Zusammenfassung A compelling study from Nobel laureate Robert Fogel! first published in 2004! which examines health! nutrition and technology over the last three centuries and beyond. It will be essential reading for all those interested in economics! demography! history and health care policy. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of figures; List of tables; Preface; Acknowledgments; 1. The persistence of misery in Europe before 1900; 2. Why the twentieth century was 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?; Appendix; Glossary of technical terms; Biographical notes; References.
