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The epidemiological transition: from material scarcity to social disadvantage?
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If increases in the quality of life now depend primarily on improving the social fabric of society rather than on general rises in prosperity then it must be asked whether further undifferentiated economic growth is worth the environmental risks.Abstract:
Mortality rates in the developed world are no longer related to per capita economic growth but are related instead to the scale of income inequality in each society. This represents a transition from the primacy of material constraints to social constraints as the limiting condition on the quality of human life....If increases in the quality of life now depend primarily on improving the social fabric of society rather than on general rises in prosperity then we must ask whether further undifferentiated economic growth is worth the environmental risks. (EXCERPT)read more
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