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Author López-Alonso, Moramay.

Title Measuring Up : A History of Living Standards in Mexico, 1850-1950.

Publication Info. Palo Alto : Stanford University Press, 2012.

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Description 1 online resource (299 pages).
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Series Social science history
Social science history.
Summary & DIV & & I & Measuring Up & /I & traces the high levels of poverty and inequality that Mexico faced in the mid-twentieth century. Using newly developed multidisciplinary techniques, the book provides a perspective on living standards in Mexico prior to the first measurement of income distribution in 1957. By offering an account of material living conditions and their repercussions on biological standards of living between 1850 and 1950, it sheds new light on the life of the marginalized during this period. & BR & & BR & & I & Measuring Up & /I & shows that new methodologies allow us to examine the history of indi.
Contents List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; List of Acronyms; Introduction; Section 1. Institutions and Living Standards; Chapter 1. The Ideas Behind the Making of Welfare Institutions; Chapter 2. Welfare as Charity; Chapter 3. Welfare as Public Policy; Section 2. Anthropometric Evidence; Chapter 1. The Measure of Well-Being and Growth: Why and How Do We Use Heights to Understand Living Standards?; Chapter 2. The Tall or Short of It: Tracking Heights and Living Standards; Section 3. The Synergies Between Health and Nutrition; Chapter 1. Health and Nutrition: The History.
Chapter 2. Health and Nutrition: The Data AnalysisOverview and Final Conclusions; Appendix; Notes; Bibliography; Index.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Subject Cost and standard of living -- Mexico -- History.
Cost and standard of living.
Mexico.
History.
Stature -- Mexico -- History.
Stature.
Diet -- Mexico -- History.
Diet.
Public health -- Mexico -- History.
Public health.
Public welfare -- Mexico -- History.
Public welfare.
Poverty -- Mexico -- History.
Poverty.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Subject Stature.
Other Form: Print version: 9780804773164
ISBN 9780804782852
0804782857
9780804773164 (cloth ; alkaline paper)
0804773165 (cloth ; alkaline paper)