<p>How has human development evolved during the last 150 years of globalization and economic growth? How has human development been distributed across countries? How do developing countries compare to developed countries? Do social systems matter for wellbeing? Are there differences in the performance of developing regions over time? Employing a capabilities approach, Human Development and the Path to Freedom addresses these key questions in the context of modern economic growth and globalization from c.1870 to the present. Leandro Prados de la Escosura shows that health, access to knowledge, standards of living, and civil and political freedom can substitute for GDP per head as more accurate measures of our wellbeing.\nBook Description\nA new framework for measuring the evolution of human development and wellbeing in the modern world.</p>

Human Development and the Path to Freedom: 1870 to the Present (New Approaches to Economic and Social History)

Business & Money

Prados de la Escosura, Leandro

Economics

Cambridge University Press

Human Development and the Path to Freedom (New Approaches to Economic and Social History)

This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license.This text offers a comprehensive and nuanced view of the economic development of Spain since 1850. It provides a new set of historical GDP estimates for Spain from the demand and supply sides, and presents a reconstruction of production and expenditure series for the century prior to the introduction of modern national accounts. The author splices available national accounts sets over the period 1958–2015 through interpolation, as an alternative to conventional retropolation. The resulting national accounts series are linked to the historical estimates providing yearly series for GDP and its components since 1850. On the basis of new population estimates, the author derives GDP per head, decomposed into labour productivity and the amount of work per person, and placed into international perspective. With theoretical reasoning and historiographical implications, Prados de la Escosura provides a useful methodological reference work for anyone interested in national accounting.Open Access has been made possible thanks to Fundación Rafael del Pino's generous support.You can find the full dataset here: http://espacioinvestiga.org/bbdd-chne/?lang=en‘This book stands among the classics for the Kuznetian paradigm in empirical economics. This is the definitive study of Spain's transition to a modern economy.’ ―Patrick Karl O'Brien, Emeritus Fellow at St. Antony’s College, the University of Oxford, UK, and Professor Emeritus of Global Economic History at the London School of Economics and Political Science, UK‘The definitive account of Spanish economic growth since 1850, based firmly on a magisterial reconstruction of that country’s national accounts and an unrivalled knowledge of both Spanish and global economic history of the period.’ ―Stephen Broadberry, Professor of Economic History at Nuffield College, the University of Oxford, UK

Spanish Economic Growth, 1850–2015 (Palgrave Studies in Economic History)

PALGRAVE~MACMILLAN

EL PROGRESO ECONOMICO DE ESPAÑA (1850-2000)

El progreso económico de España (1850-2000)

Fundación Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria

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