Contours of the world economy, 1-2030 AD : essays in macro-economic history / Angus Maddison
- Bib ID:
- 4539463
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Maddison, Angus
- Online Version:
- Table of contents only
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- Description:
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- Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2007
- xii, 418 p. : ill. (some col.), maps ; 25 cm.
- ISBN:
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- 9780199227211
- 0199227217
- 9780199227204
- 0199227209
- Full contents:
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- The contours of world development 2
- The history of macro-measurement 5
- The shape of things to come 6
- Contours of world development, 1
- 2003AD
- 1the Roman Empire and its economy 11
- Introduction 11
- Key characteristics accounting for Roman success in empire building 13
- Conquest of the Italian Peninsula, 396
- 191BC 17
- The empire building process 18
- The disintegration of the empire 30
- Roman demography 32
- Roman income 44
- Endnotes 61
- Bibliography 62
- 2The resurrection of Western Europe and the transformation of the americas 69
- Why and when did the west get rich? 69
- The driving forces that explain the acceleration in western growth since 1820 73
- Changes in the structure of demand and employment 74
- The european transformation of the Americas, 1500
- 1820 88
- Endnotes 105
- References 108
- 3The interaction between Asia and the West, 1500
- 2003 111
- European
- Asian interaction from 1500 to 1820 112
- The impact of Asian trade on Europe, 1500
- 1820 115
- The impact of Europe on Asia, 1500
- 1820 116
- Endnotes 178
- References 179
- 4The impact of Islam and Europe on African development: 1
- 2003AD 183
- Introduction 183
- The European impact on North Africa before the seventh century 185
- The Islamic conquest and its implications 188
- Egypt as Islamic state 192
- The Maghreb and the initiation of Trans-Saharan trade in gold and slaves 206
- The changing character of Moroccan dynasties and their interaction with Europe and Black Africa 209
- Black Africa and the impact of Islam 214
- The European encounter with Africa 217
- Africa from 1820 to 1960 227
- Post-colonial Africa, 1960 onwards 231
- Appendix 237
- Endnotes 239
- References 240
- Advances in macro-measurement since 1665
- 5political arithmeticians and historical demographers: the pioneers of macro-measurement 249
- William Petty (1623
- 87) 250
- John Graunt: the first demographer (1620
- 74) 256
- Gregory King (1648
- 1712) and Charles Davenant (1656
- 1714) 258
- Patrick Colquhoun (1745
- 1820) 282
- French political arithmetic, 1695
- 1707 284
- Macro-measurement in the nineteenth and first half of the twentieth century 287
- Bibliography 288
- 6Modern macro-measurement: how far have we come? 294
- Development of macro-measurement as a tool of economic policy since 1950 295
- Quantifying and interpreting world economic growth from 1820 onwards 301
- Economic performance in the merchant capitalist epoch: 1500
- 1820 307
- The roots of modernity: 'takeoff' or long apprenticeship 315
- Appendices 316
- Endnotes 321
- Bibliography 323
- The shape of things to come
- 7the world economy in 2030 335
- Projections of population and changes in demographic characteristics 335
- Assumptions underlying the projections of per capita GDP 338
- The relationship between economic growth, energy consumption, carbon emissions, and global warming 347
- The impact of climate change 360
- The Kyoto Protocol 362
- The report of the House of Lords on climate change 362
- The Stern review of the economics of climate change 363
- Conclusions on global warming 366.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Subject:
- Economic history
- Copyright:
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