About this title: 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 ...
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Date Published: 2004
ISBN-13:9780521004886ISBN:0521004888
Description: Very Good+ 0521004888. Text clean and tight; Cambridge Studies in Population, Economy and Society in Past Time; 0.7 x 8.8 x 5.9 Inches; 216 pages. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Date Published: 2004
ISBN-13:9780521004886ISBN:0521004888
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Edition: reprint.
Binding: orig. wrappers
Publisher: Cambridge University Press, Cambridge
Date Published: (2006)
Description: Minor rubbing. VG. 23x15cm, xx, 191 pp, PAPERBACK. Series: 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 ... read more
Binding: orig. boards
Publisher: Cambridge University Press, Cambridge
Date Published: 2004
Description: Textual tables & graphs. Minor rubbing. Label to rear cover. Small chip to spine-edge. VG. 23x16cm, xx, 191 pp, Series: Cambridge Studies in Population, Economy, and Society in Past Time: 38. Contents: The Persistence of Misery in Europe before 1900; Why the Twentieth Century was So Remarkable; Tragedies and Miracles in the Third World; Prospects for the Twenty-first Century; Problems of Equity in Health Care; Postscript: How Long Can We Live? ; Appendix. ["Nobel laureate Robert Fogel's ... read more
Binding: Hardback
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Date Published: 2004
ISBN-13:9780521808781ISBN:0521808782
Description: BRAND NEW HARDBACK. 9.21 by.71 inches. (216 pages) nobel laureate robert fogel examines health, nutrition and technology over the last three centuries. a compelling new study from nobel laureate robert fogel, examining 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. a compelling new study from nobel laureate robert fogel, examining health, nutrition and ... read more
Description: New. A compelling new study from Nobel laureate Robert Fogel, examining 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. read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN-13:9780521004886ISBN:0521004888
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Cambridge Univ Pr
Date Published: 2004
ISBN-13:9780521004886ISBN:0521004888
Description: Nobel laureate Robert Fogel's compelling new study examines health, nutrition and technology from 1700 to 2100. Although throughout most of human history, chronic malnutrition has been the norm, a synergy between improvements in productive technology... read more
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