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 Excel® format. These two volumes bring together estimates of world …

Pessimists on globalization claim that liberalization of markets allows multinational corporations free reign … seems that poor countries stand to gain much from interdependence with the rich. The problem with globalization may be that …