The Great Escape

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, Angus Deaton one of the foremost experts on economic development and on poverty tells the remarkable story of how, beginning 250 years ago, some parts of the world experienced sustained progress, opening up gaps and setting the stage for today s disproportionately unequal world Deaton takes an in depth look at the historical and ongoing patterns behind the health and wealth of nations, and addresses what needs to be done to help those left behind.Deaton describes vast innovations and wrenching setbacks the successes of antibiotics, pest control, vaccinations, and clean water on the one hand, and disastrous famines and the HIV AIDS epidemic on the other He examines the United States, a nation that has prospered but is today experiencing slower growth and increasing inequality He also considers how economic growth in India and China has improved the lives of than a billion people Deaton argues that international aid has been ineffective and even harmful He suggests alternative efforts including reforming incentives to drug companies and lifting trade restrictions that will allow the developing world to bring about its own Great Escape.Demonstrating how changes in health and living standards have transformed our lives, The Great Escape is a powerful guide to addressing the well being of all nations. Read The Great Escape – kino-fada.fr Feb 2017 update I am lowering my rating from 3 stars to 1, because I think that so called experts just B.S.ing on important matters is too dangerous to be tolerated any Please see comment stream below fordetails The Great Escape is a mix of brilliant insights and bizarre nonsense Millions of children die each year of easily preventable diseases, but Deaton argues that they do not need help This is an outrageously convenient excuse for those in power His absurd conclusion comes f Feb 2017 update I am lowering my rating from 3 stars to 1, because I think that so called experts just B.S.ing on important matters is too dangerous to be tolerated any Please see comment stream below fordetails The Great Escape i...By Edward HadasIt is easy to tell grim stories about the world economy A billion people still live in desperate poverty The world s rich are pulling further away from the poor Many developed economies are still in a rut, five years after a financial crisis In The Great Escape , Angus Deaton provides aoptimistic, and muchaccurate, narrative.The Princeton economics professor offers a helpful mix of statistics, explanation, analysis and anecdote He starts with the tale of his own By Edward HadasIt is easy to tell grim stories about the world economy A billion people still live in desperate poverty The world s rich are pulling further away from the poor Many developed economies are still in a rut, five years after a financial crisis In The Great Escape , Angus Deaton provides aoptimistic, and muchaccurate, narrative.The Princeton economics professor offers a helpful mix of statistics, explanation, analysis and anecdote He starts with the tale of ...The main idea of this book is captured in the title For most of human existence most of the world s population lived short unhealthy lifespans in grinding poverty The story of the past 300 years especially since 1945 is the escape of a large part of the world s population but by no means all from poverty disease and an early grave The book traces how these things first came to happen in Western Europe and U.S first and began to spread to east Asia and other poor countries A key factor to The main idea of this book is captured in the title For most of human existence most of the world s population lived short unhealthy lifespans in grinding poverty The story of the past 300 years especially since 1945 is the escape of a large part of the world s population but by no means all from poverty disease and an early grave The book traces how these things first came to happen in Western Europe and U.S first and began to spread to east Asia and other poor countries A key factor to wealth creation is improving public health and lengthening life span These are major factors that are both cause and effect for first world countries to sky rocket ...Deaton has some interesting thoughts on rising inequality, and the dangers it presents to societies He traces the development of the kinds of economic growth that can contribute to the rich getting richer without everyone else keeping up, and the insidious ways this dynamic perpetuates itself.On the other hand, Deaton draws some conclusions about the efficacy of evaluating pilot projects useless and scaling almost never works and aid to poor countries useless and no one successful ever got a Deaton has some interesting thoughts on rising inequality, and the dangers it presents to societies He traces the development of the kinds of economic growth that can contribute to the rich getting richer without everyone else keeping up, and the insidious ways this dynamic perpetuates itself.On the other hand, Deaton draws some conclusions about the efficacy of evaluating pilot projects useless and scaling almost never works and aid to poor countries useless and...Sa de e Longevidade Ainda N o Chegam a TodosSa de e Longevidade J se Podem ComprarMas Nem Todos as Conseguem Alcan ar Nota Para quem preferir, existe uma edi o em portugu s intitulada A Grande Evas oDeaton s tome combines a tad dry presentation with incredibly informative and well argued contents Summarizes decades worth of research Provides some good work on development, growth and wealth creation, with a special focus on public health improvements.Among its highlights, the book offers a strident critique of foreign aid and technocratic management from an institutional point of view Deaton acknowledges that aid programmes can do a lot of good, especially if they are given with condition Deaton s tome combines a tad dry presentation with incredibly informative and well argued contents Summarizes decades worth of research Provides some good work on development, growth and wealth creation, with a special focus on public health improvements.Among its highlights, the book offers a strident critique of foreign aid and technocratic management from an institutional point of view Deaton acknowledges that aid programmes can do a lot of good, especially if they are given with conditions that prevent corrupt and oppressive governments from stealing the money Free cash to bad regimes prevents local economic and political development, claims Deaton, and local solutions and narrow health targeting should be favoured instead First do no harm should be our policy concern instead of know it all meddling He claims that large scale aid does not work because it CANNOT work Good aims do not autom...Has the human race made progress since the days when all our lives were nasty, brutish, and short Some might think this question patently silly, since it would appear to answer itself But Angus Deaton finds in it a point of entry into his inquiry on health, wealth, and the origins of inequality, the subtitle of his ambitious new book He is in no doubt that humanity has progressed, not steadily but by fits and starts and continues to do so to this day Today, he writes, children in sub S Has the human race made progress since the days when all our lives were nasty, brutish, and short Some might think this question patently silly, since it would appear to answer itself But Angus Deaton finds in it a point of entry into his inquiry on health, wealth, and the origins of inequality, the subtitle of his ambitious new book He is in no doubt that humanity has progressed, not steadily but by fits and starts and continues to do so to this day Today, he writes, children in sub Saharan Africa arelikely to survive to age 5 than were English children born in 1918and India today has higher life expectancy than Scotland in 1945 In The Great Escape, Deaton, a veteran professor of economics and international affairs at Princeton, explores inequality between classes and between countries with a detaile...Very good read, even though the author jumps between issues Many points are discussed and underlined with metrics, how to interpret them, and their limits in usefulness You get a feeling that it is written from an American USA audience since so many issues are repeated over and over again The books covers the great escape from poverty and lack of wellbeing since the onset of the industrial revolution The progress has obviously not always and not everywhere been as improvements Wars, pan Very good read, even though the author jumps between issues Many points are discussed and underlined with metrics, how to interpret them...There is nocontroversial of the social sciences these days than the study of economics Yes, a social science the study of human interactions and though it does contain laws supply and demand, unintended outcomes proven and repeatable, it is still after all just about humans Of course, many people want us to forget that those who want to use economics to advance their political projects Marxists and socialists and their unscrupulous defenders Paul Krugman, cough cough Controver There is nocontroversial of the social sciences these days than the study of economics Yes, a social science the study of human interactions and though it does contain laws supply and demand, unintended outcomes proven and repeatable, it is still after all just about humans Of course, many people want us to forget that those who want to use economics to advance their political projects Marxists and socialists and their unscrupulous defenders Paul Krugman, cough cough Controversial, because economics is always used these days in the defense of violence Who can take my property, break up my company, force what should be free interactions with those to whom I seek to engage in the trade of goods and services and why Of course the most evil man of all time Karl Marx was an economist And a bad one, his children starved to death and committed suicide That certainly isn t a recipe for a lifeabundant.Because THAT is what economics should be about and that is what Angus Deaton s thoughtful b...In Der gro e Ausbruch Von Armut und Wohlstand der Nationen setzt sich Deaton mit Zusammenh ngen zwischen Wirtschaftswachstum, Bev lkerungsentwicklung, Gesundheit, Wohlstand des Einzelnen und des Staates auseinander Die weit klaffende Schere zwischen Arm und Reich in Nationalstaaten und das Wohlstandsgef lle zwischen armen und reichen L ndern sind ein h chst aktuelles Thema angesichts der globalen Armutsemigration Deaton ist ein erkl rter ...

• English
• 05 November 2018
Angus Deaton
• ebook
• 376 pages
• 1400847966
• Angus Deaton
• The Great Escape