Chapter Title: Front Matter

Book Title: The Great Escape

Book Subtitle: Health, Wealth, and the Origins of Inequality
Book Author(s): ANGUS DEATON
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THE GREAT ESCAPE
Health, Wealth, and the Origins of Inequality

ANGUS DEATON

Princeton University Press

Princeton and Oxford

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 In memory of Leslie Harold Deaton

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