The World Economy brings together two reference works by Angus Maddison: The World Economy: A Millennial Perspective …, first published in 2001 and The World Economy: Historical Statistics, published in 2003. This new edition contains Statlinks …, a service providing access to the underlying data in Excel® format. These two volumes bring together estimates of world …

explain why China's role in the world economy has changed so dramatically in the last thousand years. It concludes that China … is likely to resume its natural role as the world's largest economy by the year 2015, thus regaining the position it had …. Problems and Prospects: The Outlook for China and the World Economy 2003-2030Appendix A. Performance in Farming, Fishery …

explain why China’s role in the world economy has changed so dramatically in the last thousand years. It concludes that China … is likely to resume its natural role as the world’s largest economy by the year 2015, thus regaining the position it had … contribution to a subject that has deep significance for the world economy." -Professor Lawrence Klein, Nobel Laureate. "A welcome …

Angus Maddison provides a comprehensive view of the growth and levels of world population since the year 1000 when rich … countries of today were poorer than Asia and Africa. The gap between the world leader, the US and the poorest region, Africa, is … reference and a sequel to the author's Monitoring the World Economy: 1820-1992, published in 1995 and his 1998 Chinese Economic …

Following his The World Economy: a Millennial Perspective, Angus Maddison here offers a rare insight into the history … tables showing Maddison’s estimates for the world and its major regions from as early as the year 1000. It is intended as a …