The study provides a major reassessment of the scale and scope of China's resurgence over the past half century, employing quantitative measurement techniques which are standard practice in OECD countries. It uses a comparative approach to explain why China's role in the world economy has...

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...

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 now 20:1. The book has several objectives. The...

Angus Maddison présente un panorama complet de la croissance et des niveaux de la population mondiale depuis l’an Mil lorsque les pays riches d’aujourd’hui étaient plus pauvres que l’Asie et l’Afrique. L’écart entre les États-Unis -- et la région la plus pauvre -- l’Afrique --...

Following his The World Economy: a Millennial Perspective, Angus Maddison here offers a rare insight into the history and political influence of national accounts and national accounting. He demonstrates that such statistical data can shed light on the analysis of economic phenomena such as...

Cette publication fait suite à L'économie mondiale : une perspective millénaire, publié par l’OCDE en 2001. Angus Maddison y propose une vision particulièrement pénétrante de l’histoire et de l’influence politique des comptes nationaux et de la comptabilité nationale. Il montre que...

The study provides a major reassessment of the scale and scope of China’s resurgence over the past half century, employing quantitative measurement techniques which are standard practice in OECD countries. It uses a comparative approach to explain why China’s role in the world economy has...