Zanden, Jan Luiten van - In: Investigaciones de Historia Económica (IHE) Journal of … 2 (2005), pp. 9-38
The paper discusses different attempts to measure economic growth in Europe before the Industrial Revolution. It is argued that the figures published by Angus Maddison probably overestimate growth between 1000 and 1820. Next, a method for simulating long-term patterns of growth is presented, and...
