How Was Life? : Global Well-being since 1820

How Was Life? Global Well-being since 1820

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 n...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development.
Corporate Authors: Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (-), Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, sponsoring body (sponsoring body)
Other Authors: van Zanden, Jan Luiten (-), Baten, Joerg, Mira d’Ercole, Marco, Rijpma, Auke, Timmer, Marcel P.
Format: eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Paris : OECD Publishing 2014.
Subjects:
Well-being > OECD countries.
Social indicators > OECD countries.
See on Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009706138606719
Table of Contents:
  • 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
  • Demographic trends since 1820
  • Environmental quality since 1820
  • Education since 1820
  • Gender inequality since 1820
  • Income inequality since 1820
  • Real wages since 1820.

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