This publication 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...

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...

Property rights and sustainable development / by Terry L. Anderson -- The skeptical environmentalist / by Bjørn Lomborg -- Economic growth, technological change and human well-being / by Indur M. Goklany -- Income and the race to the top / by Bruce Yandle, Maya Vijayaraghavan, and Madhusudan...