The great escape : health, wealth, and the origins of inequality / Angus Deaton.

Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2013]

xv, 360 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Introduction : what this book is about -- The wellbeing of the world -- Life and death. From prehistory to 1945 ; Escaping death in the tropics ; Health in the modern world -- Money. Material wellbeing in the United States ; Globalization and the greatest escape -- Help. How to help those left behind -- Postscript : what comes next?

Includes bibliographical references and index.