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Ethics and Inequality: A Strategic and Practical View

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 September 2016

James K. Galbraith
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Deng Xiaoping once said, “Let some get rich first, the others will follow.” This is Angus Deaton's basic view in The Great Escape. Deaton, co-winner of the Leontief Prize in 2014 and winner of the Nobel Prize in 2015, chronicles the rise of almost all of humanity out of conditions of widespread hunger, disease, destitution, and premature death, and into a world where infant and child mortality has fallen sharply, and where heart diseases and even cancers are declining. Consequently, with exceptions related to AIDS and in the poorest countries, life overall is longer and health better than ever before.

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Review Essay
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Ethics & International Affairs , Volume 30 , Issue 3 , Fall 2016 , pp. 379 - 389
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Copyright © Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs 2016 

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