The work provides quantitative inter-temporal and international perspectives for assessing performance in 16 European capitalist countries, and examines the forces which have shaped their development. From a historical perspective, the author looks back over the five main phases of the modern...

The paper is a contribution to a series of recollections and reflections on the professional experiences of distinguished economists which the BNL Quarterly Review started in 1979. Angus Maddison recounts his life and career as an economist.

This paper utilizes the 12 country data set on agricultural prices and output from a previous ICOP study by Maddison and van Ooststroom (GD-1) to demonstrate the applicability of the Laspeyres, Paasche and Fisher methods along with the Geary Khamis. Analysis in the paper is useful in integrating...

The work provides quantitative inter-temporal and international perspectives for assessing performance in 16 European capitalist countries, and examines the forces which have shaped their development. From a historical perspective, the author looks back over the five main phases of the modern...

The paper is a contribution to a series of recollections and reflections on the professional experiences of distinguished economists which the Banca Nazionale del Lavoro Quarterly Review started in 1979. Angus Maddison recounts his life and career as an economist.

A long-term assessment of Asia's share of global GDP suggests that Asia has now almost reclaimed the role in the global economy it occupied in 1820. By focusing on the experience of key economies in Asia, this paper assesses why the continent's role weakened between 1820 and 1950 and...

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