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How Was Life? [electronic resource]: Global Well-being since 1820 / Organisation for Economic Co-ope...
How Was Life? [electronic resource]: Global Well-being since 1820 / Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development ; edited by Jan Luiten van Zanden ... [et al]
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Paris : OECD Publishing, 2014.
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2014.
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English
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1 online resource (273 p.)
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text
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computer
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online resource
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Personal security since 1820 -- Preface -- Human height since 1820 -- Foreword -- Political institutions since 1820 -- Global well-being since 1820 -- Executive summary -- Readers' Guide -- Life expectancy since 1820 -- GDP per capita since 1820 -- A composite view of well-being since 1820 -- Demogr...
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Paris : OECD Publishing, 2014.
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2014.
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How was life in 1820, and how has it improved since then? What are the long-term trends in global well-being? Views on social progress since the Industrial Revolution are largely based on historical national accounting in the tradition of Kuznets and Maddison. But trends in real GDP per capita may not fully reflect changes in other dimensions of w...
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How Was Life? [electronic resource]: Global Well-being since 1820 / Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development ; edited by Jan Luiten van Zanden ... [et al]
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Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters.
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74VK356jPaAg
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92-64-21426-7
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320.60727
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991023948055202626
