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The Great Escape
- Health, Wealth, and the Origins of Inequality
- Narrated by: Matthew Brenher
- Length: 12 hrs and 13 mins
- Unabridged Audiobook
- Categories: Business & Careers, Business Development & Entrepreneurship
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Summary
The world is a better place than it used to be. People are healthier, wealthier, and live longer. Yet the escapes from destitution by so many has left gaping inequalities between people and nations.
In The Great Escape, Angus Deaton - one of the foremost experts on economic development and on poverty - tells the remarkable story of how, beginning 250 years ago, some parts of the world experienced sustained progress, opening up gaps and setting the stage for today's disproportionately unequal world. Deaton takes an in-depth look at the historical and ongoing patterns behind the health and wealth of nations and addresses what needs to be done to help those left behind.
Deaton describes vast innovations and wrenching setbacks: the successes of antibiotics, pest control, vaccinations, and clean water on one hand and disastrous famines and the HIV/AIDS epidemic on the other. He examines the United States, a nation that has prospered but is today experiencing slower growth and increasing inequality. He also considers how economic growth in India and China has improved the lives of more than a billion people. Deaton argues that international aid has been ineffective and even harmful. He suggests alternative efforts - including reforming incentives to drug companies and lifting trade restrictions - that will allow the developing world to bring about its own great escape.
Demonstrating how changes in health and living standards have transformed our lives, The Great Escape is a powerful guide to addressing the well-being of all nations.
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- Cipolla
- 16-04-16
Graphs? What graphs? This is an audiobook
Probably a very interesting book, however constant references to graphs I can't see because I am listning to an audiobook, made me feel like I was missing out on a lot of points. Go for the printed or tablet version.
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- Amazon Customer
- 14-08-17
An informative synopsis of growth
Deaton's tome combines a tad dry presentation with incredibly informative and well-argued contents. Summarizes decades worth of research. Provides some good work on development, growth and wealth creation, with a special focus on public health improvements.
Among its highlights, the book offers a strident critique of foreign aid and technocratic management from an institutional point of view.
The audiobook suffers from the presence of many graphs, which must be read separately.
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- David Close
- 08-09-21
Missing charts
This book refers endlessly to graphs and tables that are not available with the audiobook.
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- Amanda
- 02-08-19
Needs a PDF.
This book was not suitable for release as an audio without including a PDF due to the constant references to graphs and data which could not be viewed. I had to return this book.
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- Megan
- 24-04-22
Good book, slightly dated, good narration
An interesting book, particularly the last section on aid to poor countries thought to be of little use economically (though may help save lives).
There is a long and competent section on life expectancies and how those have changed. I do not think Deaton’s famous quote about “deaths of despair” appears in this book however. Deaton tends to think of life expectancy as life expectancy at birth, though this is not necessarily true.
It was a slight disappointment not to have sight of the many figures and graphs described in the book - I had been hoping for a pdf. This is no great hardship because the main conclusions arising from the charts are explained well enough. And I might buy the physical book to study them myself.
The book is beginning to show signs of ageing though. But it is still recent enough to be relevant.
It’s well narrated though I wouldn’t say the narrator is top of the league. There are some horrible mispronunciations. But this is perhaps nitpicking and unimportant to the enjoyment of the book.
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- Amazon Customer
- 28-02-22
Very Interesting
Not sure about the section on aid, I would have to do more reading but it definitely gives you something to think about and some interesting points made.
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- Richard Tol
- 07-01-22
a bit slow
The book is slow with endless repetition. The book only comes alive in the final chapter. Performance is poor. An audio book is more than reading a text. The narrator is rather poor with foreign names.
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- david fryer
- 05-09-21
extremely informative, immensely thought provoking
extremely informative, immensely thought provoking, presents compelling information and ideas to reasses long held ideas
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- Kyung
- 26-04-20
not worth listening
Unless the money goes to the people that the author seems to be caring for especially, this book is a waste your money. Also it is a waste of your time.
Scarcely is there any novel ideas or profound insight. I can hardly believe that this book was written by a Nobel laureate.
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- Chris
- 13-06-16
Most accessible despite the seriousness of the topic
Deaton uses the story line of the movie The Great Escape to recount how advances in knowledge on health and wealth create the opportunity for some to escape the world of poverty thereby creating or deepening inequality.
This evidence based, jargon free book is refreshingly impartial in its treatment of inequality. A must read (listen) for those who care about inequality and want to do something about it.
The book contains some tables and graphics that are well enough presented but require a little imagination to mentally recreate from the verbal description.
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- OZO
- 07-01-22
Typical duality
The contents appear to be written by at least two people with opposite perspectives and identities. One uses the empty rhetoric of "democracy/democratic Westerners" to bring about the idiotic capitalist propaganda. The other o other writers or editors appear to have one foot on the Earth and sometimes the two feet when touch with feathers reality. Poverty and inequality has the source in the prevailing nature of the dominant economic system that has reigned since 1501 (although since the Middle Ages we already see capitalist relations).
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- Mario Silveira Baqueiro
- 23-10-20
Good read with a misleading subtitle
The subtitle of this book made me think the author would be more elucidative about the technical subjects of the original of inequality. Instead it just touched the topic by talking about things that are common knowledge. It's a good reading nonetheless. Narration is pretty good.
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- Joe
- 17-10-20
Must listen
This is a great book for researchers or people with some knowledge on economics and who like to know more about inequality in the world. Excellent book.
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- Joe
- 09-08-20
A great reflection and direction for the future
In a world gone mad, it's was good to listen (and read) a thorough reflection of economic development around the world, and it's impact on poverty, health and well-being. No matter the side of the fence you are on, The Great Escape is a must.
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- ransona
- 06-02-20
really interesting and enlighten book
A new and realistic way to see and understand the mechanics of the world . It is inspiring and most be an obligated subject of study for everyone, specially any person that expect to be involved in politics, today or in the near future.
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- Nathan Franz
- 10-01-20
Great book with a puzzling concluding chapter.
I agree with Bill Gates's opinion of this book. It's a great description of the demographic transition that the world has mostly already undergone, but it ends with a chapter questioning the utility of international aid.
Check out the book Poor Economics for an important second opinion.
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- Lanceulots
- 16-07-19
enlightening
I feel like this book gave wonderful explanations of a Viewpoint that is not intuitive
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- Amazon Customer
- 16-10-17
Great book!
The book is great. It is my opinion that everyone should listen to this book. The speed of the reader is too slow for me (but it might be optimum for some users). Ways to rectify that:
1. Thoughts and prayers approach: Wish the reader would have read a little faster and then accept your fate.
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2. Politely ask amazon that they build an iphone audible app that will give the listeners an option to listen at speed of 1.10x or 1.15x. The 1.0x speed is too slow. 1.25x speed is too fast.
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3. Buy an Android phone on which such options are available for the Audible app.
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