Prof. Michèle Belot - Diseases of Affluence: On the Relationship

Prof. Michèle Belot - Diseases of Affluence: On the Relationship Between Economics and Health

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Professor Michèle Belot, Professor of Economics, delivers her inaugural lecture, "Diseases of Affluence: On the Relationship Between Economics and Health". This lecture will ask, why are Western societies so rich and at the same time so sick? Recorded on 11 March 2014 at the University of Edinburgh's Old College.

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