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Human Development and the Path to Freedom: 1870 to the Present. By Leandro Prados de la Escosura. Cambridge University Press, 2022. Pp. 354. $18.49, Kindle; $89.99 hardcover; $29.99, paper.

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Human Development and the Path to Freedom: 1870 to the Present. By Leandro Prados de la Escosura. Cambridge University Press, 2022. Pp. 354. $18.49, Kindle; $89.99 hardcover; $29.99, paper.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 December 2022

Jan Luiten van Zanden
Jan Luiten van Zanden*
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Utrecht University
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The Journal of Economic History , Volume 82 , Issue 4 , December 2022 , pp. 1229 - 1231
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© The Author(s), 2022. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of the Economic History Association

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