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The 10 essays in this volume consider the standard of living in modern times. Each of the eight chapters examines evidence of health and welfare during and after industrialization in one of eight countries: the United States; Britain; Sweden; the Netherlands; France; Germany; Japan; and Australia. The essays incorporate several indicators of quality of life, especially real per capita income and health, but also real wages, education, and inequality. The introduction and a concluding overview put the individual chapters in comparative perspective. While the authors use of traditional meaures of health such as life expectancy and mortality rates, they also make use of anthropometric data - information about height, weight, and body mass index - to show changes in nations' well being.

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Richard H. Steckel is the SBS Distinguished Professor of Economics, Anthropology, and History at Ohio State University and a research associate of the NBER. Roderick Floud is an economic historian and president emeritus of London Metropolitan University. He is an honorary fellow of Gresham College, London; Wadham College, Oxford; Emmanuel College, Cambridge; and Birkbeck, University of London. He is the author or coauthor of numerous books, including, most recently, The Cambridge Economic History of Modern Britain: Volumes I and II.

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