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"Food consumption and nutrition are historically among the most characteristic features of inequality in living standards driven by socio-economic, gender, generational and geographical reasons. Nutrition directly impacts mortality, life expectancy, height and illness, and thus becomes a good...
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broad description of the historical evolution from the agricultural society over industrialization up to the present service … broad description of the historical evolution from the agricultural society over industrialization up to the present service …
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"This exciting new volume examines the development of market performance from Antiquity until the dawn of the Industrial Revolution. Efficient market structures are agreed by most economists to serve as evidence of economic prosperity, and to be prerequisites for further economic growth....
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1. Introduction / Gareth Austin and Kaoru Sugihara -- 2. Labour-intensive industrialization in global history : an …. Proto-industrialization and labour-intensive industrialization : reflections on Smithian growth and the role of skill …-intensive industrialization in the rural Yangzi Delta : late imperial patterns and their modern fates / Kenneth Pomeranz -- 7. From peasant …
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1. Growth and transformation during two centuries -- 2. The transformation of agriculture and early industrialisation, 1790-1850 -- 3. Railway construction and expanded industrialisation, 1850-1890 -- 4. The breakthrough of industrial society, 1890-1930 -- 5. The peak of industrial society,...
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pt. 1. Methodology -- pt. 2. Market performance in Babylonia and the Mediterranean in antiquity -- pt. 3. Market performance from the Middle Ages to the nineteenth century -- pt. 4. Markets and money -- pt. 5. Long-term patterns -- pt. 6. Conclusion.
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