Sauter, Caspar; Grether, Jean-Marie; Mathys, Nicole A. - 2015
We construct the world's centers of gravity for human population, GDP and CO2 emissions by taking the best out of five …. We find a radical Western shift of GDP and CO2 emissions centers during the 19th century, in sharp contrast with the … stability of the demographic center of gravity. Both GDP and emissions trends are reversed in the first half of the 20th century …
