Leandro Prados de la Escosura, "Human Development and the Path to Freedom: 1870 to the Present" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
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The Big Takeaway Is Human Development
I would say well being in to measure as human development has improved remarkably, you know, has multiplied several times like five times a but we still have way of the maximum we can achieve. We live longer and in healthier terms we have better access to knowledge, we have more material will be to have a decent life and we enjoy more freedom than before. There is obviously an uneven distribution of these achievements that we can talk. And there is a lot of room for improvement. So it's a moderately optimistic message. It's, I would say, compared to GDP, which is a metric people have in mind, the message is more optimistic. The challenges are you need to continue increasing mobility compression
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