Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. Evidence of six crises -- Chapter 3. Globalization, national economies, and global crises -- Chapter 4. Conceptual issues — Depressions, recessions, crisis cycles, business cycles -- Chapter 5. A world economy -- Chapter 6. Why do crises occur? Causal...

Using data for England and Wales during the years 1840–2000, a negative relation is found between economic growth – measured by the rate of growth of gross domestic product (GDP) – and health progress – as indexed by the annual increase in life expectancy at birth (LEB). That is, the...