income growth, focussing on the role of consumer inequality, values, and the diffusion process of technologies. Chapter 1 … investigates how household income inequality shapes the diffusion of technologies. A simple demand side model with hierarchical …, more consumer inequality hinders the diffusion process for new technologies. Using data on 39 major technologies, the …

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 …