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Nobel laureate Robert Fogel's compelling new study examines health, nutrition and technology from 1700 to 2100. Although throughout most of human history, chronic malnutrition has been the norm, a synergy between improvements in productive technology and human physiology has enabled humans to more than double their average longevity and to increase their body size by over fifty percent over the past three centuries. Larger, healthier humans have contributed to the acceleration of economic growth and technological change, resulting in reduced economic inequality, declining hours of work and a...

In his most ambitious book since Time on the Cross, the Nobel Prize-winning economist looks to the nation's past to discover the strong link between technologically induced cycles of religiousness--or awakenings--in American history and attitudes toward poverty, education, and social equality. Line drawings. Tables.