NEW YORK ¨C In ¡°The Great Escape: Health, Wealth and the Origins of Inequality,¡± Angus Deaton sets out to tell a familiar story ¡ª that of the long arc of global economic advance ¡ª in a fresh way. The author is an economics professor at Princeton University, a renowned development economist and an exceptionally gifted teacher.
Even those familiar with his accomplishments might be surprised by how brilliantly his book succeeds.
The world, he emphasizes, is a vastly better place than it was, and he shows that the usual preoccupation with growth in measured output understates this astounding transformation.
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