"How was life in 1820, and how has it improved since then? What are the long-term trends in global well-being? Views on social progress since the Industrial Revolution are largely based on historical national accounting in the tradition of Kuznets and Maddison. But trends in real GDP per capita...

How was life in 1820, and how has it improved since then? What are the long-term trends in global well-being? Views on social progress since the Industrial Revolution are largely based on historical national accounting in the tradition of Kuznets and Maddison. But trends in real GDP per capita...

This book draws on national level datasets and advanced quantitative techniques to address the question of the rate of social mobility in Indian society. It underlines the fairly stable nature of Indian society, despite liberalization, and the critical role caste, class, gender and education...