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Richard Steckel, Clark Spencer Larsen, Charlotte Roberts & Joerg Baten (Eds.), The Backbone of Europe: Health, Diet, Work, and Violence over Two Millennia
Journal of Economics and Political Economy
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Richard Steckel, Clark Spencer Larsen, Charlotte Roberts & Joerg Baten (Eds.), The Backbone of Europe: Health, Diet, Work, and Violence over Two Millennia
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CARSON, Scott Alan; University of Texas, Permain Basin, 4901 East University, Odessa, TX, 79762, USA.
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Europe; Health; Diet; Work; Violence.
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Abstract. When traditional measures for material welfare are scarce or unreliable, a population’s average stature reflects its cumulative net nutrition during economic development. In the 1970s, Robert Fogel and his graduate students led the effort to integrate statures as an economic measure for welfare with their studies of American slavery, and the use of anthropometrics has been extended to various fields in economics, development, and economic history (Fogel & Engerman, 1974; Fogel, 1989; Fogel, 1994). Few scholars have done as much to advance the use of height and anthropometric measures as Richard Steckel, a Fogel graduate student. Demonstrating extraordinary creativityto bring yet another measurement tool that sheds light on economic conditions, Steckel has extended the use of stature of the living to the skeletal remains of the dead.Keywords. Europe, Health, Diet, Work, Violence.JEL. H51, H75, J01, J10.
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Journal of Economics and Political Economy
Journal of Economics and Political Economy |
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2020-01-16
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info:eu-repo/semantics/article
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application/pdf
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http://www.kspjournals.org/index.php/JEPE/article/view/2007
10.1453/jepe.v6i4.2007 |
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Journal of Economics and Political Economy; Vol 6, No 4 (2019): December; 392-397
Journal of Economics and Political Economy; Vol 6, No 4 (2019): December; 392-397 2148-8347 |
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eng
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http://www.kspjournals.org/index.php/JEPE/article/view/2007/2026
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Copyright (c) 2020 Journal of Economics and Political Economy
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0 |
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