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Chapter One

1. Francois Bourguignon and Christian Morrison, “Inequality Among World Citizens: 1820–1992,” American Economic Review 92, no. 4 (2002): 731; Shaohua Chen and Martin Ravallion, “The Developing World Is Poorer Than We Thought, but No Less Successful in the Fight Against Poverty,” Quarterly Journal of Economics 125, no. 4 (2010): 1577–1625.

2. Valued in 1990 international dollars. Angus Maddison, “Statistics on World Population, GDP and Per Capita GDP, 1–2008 AD,” Groningen Growth & Development Centre Web page, March 2010, www.ggdc.net/MADDISON/oriindex.htm.

3. These three statistics are from Deirdre N. McCloskey, ...

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