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Explaining Long-Term Trends in Health and Longevity - Softcover

Fogel, Robert W.

 
9781107665811: Explaining Long-Term Trends in Health and Longevity
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1107665817 ISBN 13: 9781107665811
Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2012

Synopsis

A collection of essays by Nobel laureate Robert W. Fogel on the theory and measurement of ageing and health-related variables.

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About the Author

Robert W. Fogel is Charles R. Walgreen Distinguished Service Professor of American Institutions at the Booth School of Business, University of Chicago and Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. Dr Fogel was the joint winner (with Douglass North) of the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences in 1993. He is the author of several books, including The Escape from Hunger and Premature Death, 1700–2100: Europe, America, and the Third World (Cambridge University Press, 2004) and The Fourth Great Awakening and the Future of Egalitarianism (2002). He co-authored The Changing Body: Health, Nutrition, and Human Development in the Western World since 1700 (Cambridge University Press, 2011).

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Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Publication date
2012
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1107665817
ISBN 13 
9781107665811
Binding
Paperback
Edition number
1
Number of pages
190