Contours of the world economy, 1--2030 AD
Subtitle: essays in macro-economic history
By: Angus Maddison.
Publisher: University Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Oxford
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780199227204; 9780199227211; 9780199227209
Subjects: Economic history
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The contours of world development 2; title: The history of macro-measurement 5; title: The shape of things to come 6; title: Contours of world development, 1; title: 2003AD; title: 1the Roman Empire and its economy 11; title: Introduction 11; title: Key characteristics accounting for Roman success in empire building 13; title: Conquest of the Italian Peninsula, 396; title: 191BC 17; title: The empire building process 18; title: The disintegration of the empire 30; title: Roman demography 32; title: Roman income 44; title: Endnotes 61; title: Bibliography 62; title: 2The resurrection of Western Europe and the transformation of the americas 69; title: Why and when did the west get rich? 69; title: The driving forces that explain the acceleration in western growth since 1820 73; title: Changes in the structure of demand and employment 74; title: The european transformation of the Americas, 1500; title: 1820 88; title: Endnotes 105; title: References 108; title: 3The interaction between Asia and the West, 1500; title: 2003 111; title: European; title: Asian interaction from 1500 to 1820 112; title: The impact of Asian trade on Europe, 1500; title: 1820 115; title: The impact of Europe on Asia, 1500; title: 1820 116; title: Endnotes 178; title: References 179; title: 4The impact of Islam and Europe on African development: 1; title: 2003AD 183; title: Introduction 183; title: The European impact on North Africa before the seventh century 185; title: The Islamic conquest and its implications 188; title: Egypt as Islamic state 192; title: The Maghreb and the initiation of Trans-Saharan trade in gold and slaves 206; title: The changing character of Moroccan dynasties and their interaction with Europe and Black Africa 209; title: Black Africa and the impact of Islam 214; title: The European encounter with Africa 217; title: Africa from 1820 to 1960 227; title: Post-colonial Africa, 1960 onwards 231; title: Appendix 237; title: Endnotes 239; title: References 240; title: Advances in macro-measurement since 1665; title: 5political arithmeticians and historical demographers: the pioneers of macro-measurement 249; title: William Petty (1623; title: 87) 250; title: John Graunt: the first demographer (1620; title: 74) 256; title: Gregory King (1648; title: 1712) and Charles Davenant (1656; title: 1714) 258; title: Patrick Colquhoun (1745; title: 1820) 282; title: French political arithmetic, 1695; title: 1707 284; title: Macro-measurement in the nineteenth and first half of the twentieth century 287; title: Bibliography 288; title: 6Modern macro-measurement: how far have we come? 294; title: Development of macro-measurement as a tool of economic policy since 1950 295; title: Quantifying and interpreting world economic growth from 1820 onwards 301; title: Economic performance in the merchant capitalist epoch: 1500; title: 1820 307; title: The roots of modernity: 'takeoff' or long apprenticeship 315; title: Appendices 316; title: Endnotes 321; title: Bibliography 323; title: The shape of things to come; title: 7the world economy in 2030 335; title: Projections of population and changes in demographic characteristics 335; title: Assumptions underlying the projections of per capita GDP 338; title: The relationship between economic growth, energy consumption, carbon emissions, and global warming 347; title: The impact of climate change 360; title: The Kyoto Protocol 362; title: The report of the House of Lords on climate change 362; title: The Stern review of the economics of climate change 363; title: Conclusions on global warming 366.