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October 17, 2013The future of inequality"Life is better now than at almost any time in history", Angus Deaton writes in The Great Escape. The Princeton economist's account of health and wealth is a fundamentally positive story. Lives are longer, healthier, richer and more satisfying than ever before. To take one statistic from this compendium of progress: in every country in the world, infant and child mortality is lower than it was in 1950. On average, humankind is having a pretty good run.Posted by Jim Zellmer at October 17, 2013 12:57 AM Subscribe to this site via RSS/Atom: ![]() Comments
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