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The Great Escape: Progress, Paradox, and the Unfinished Ascent
Angus Deaton's 'The Great Escape' reveals humanity's unprecedented progress from suffering, yet critically examines the persistent and widening inequalities that challenge our collective conscience.
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“Angus Deaton's 'The Great Escape' reveals humanity's unprecedented progress from suffering, yet critically examines the persistent and widening inequalities that challenge our collective conscience.”
— Angus Deaton, The Great Escape: Progress, Paradox, and the Unfinished Ascent
poverty, health, growth
For anyone seeking to understand the profound, often contradictory forces shaping our world, this book offers a critical framework to analyze how humanity's unprecedented escape from poverty and disease has simultaneously created and exacerbated deep inequalities, sharpening your judgment on the true costs of progress.
Nobel laureate Angus Deaton, with his deep expertise in economics and development, offers a definitive, nuanced analysis of humanity's uneven journey from widespread suffering, revealing the intricate mechanisms that both drive progress and perpetuate inequality.