Contours of the world economy, 1-2030 AD : essays in macro-economic history / Angus Maddison.
Material type: TextPublisher: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007Description: xii, 418 pages : illustrations (some colour), maps ; 25 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 0199227209
- 9780199227204
- 0199227217
- 9780199227211
- Contours of the world economy, one-twenty thirty AD
- Contours of the world economy, 1 to 2030 AD
- 330.9 22
- HC21 .M282 2007
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. the Roman Empire and its economy -- 2. The resurrection of Western Europe and the transformation of the americas -- 3. The interaction between Asia and the West,2003 -- 4. The impact of Islam and Europe on African development: 2003AD -- 5. Political arithmeticians and historical demographers: the pioneers of macro-measurement -- 6. Modern macro-measurement: how far have we come? -- 7. The world economy in 2030 -- --
The contours of world development -- The history of macro-measurement -- The shape of things to come -- Contours of world development,2003AD -- -- 1. the Roman Empire and its economy -- Introduction -- Key characteristics accounting for Roman success in empire building -- Conquest of the Italian Peninsula,191BC -- The empire building process -- The disintegration of the empire -- Roman demography -- Roman income -- -- 2. The resurrection of Western Europe and the transformation of the americas -- Why and when did the west get rich? -- The driving forces that explain the acceleration in western growth since 1820 -- Changes in the structure of demand and employment -- The european transformation of the Americas,1820 -- -- 3. The interaction between Asia and the West,2003 -- European -- Asian interaction from 1500 to 1820 -- The impact of Asian trade on Europe,1820 -- The impact of Europe on Asia,1820 -- -- 4. The impact of Islam and Europe on African development: 2003AD -- Introduction -- The European impact on North Africa before the seventh century -- The Islamic conquest and its implications -- Egypt as Islamic state -- The Maghreb and the initiation of Trans-Saharan trade in gold and slaves -- The changing character of Moroccan dynasties and their interaction with Europe and Black Africa -- Black Africa and the impact of Islam -- The European encounter with Africa -- Africa from 1820 to 1960 -- Post-colonial Africa, 1960 onwards -- -- 5. Political arithmeticians and historical demographers: the pioneers of macro-measurement -- William Petty -- John Graunt: the first demographer -- Gregory King (1712) and Charles Davenant (1714) -- Patrick Colquhoun (1820) -- French political arithmetic,1707 -- Macro-measurement in the nineteenth and first half of the twentieth century -- -- 6. Modern macro-measurement: how far have we come? -- Development of macro-measurement as a tool of economic policy since 1950 -- Quantifying and interpreting world economic growth from 1820 onwards -- Economic performance in the merchant capitalist epoch:1820 -- The roots of modernity: 'takeoff' or long apprenticeship -- The shape of things to come -- -- 7. The world economy in 2030 -- Projections of population and changes in demographic characteristics -- Assumptions underlying the projections of per capita GDP -- The relationship between economic growth, energy consumption, carbon emissions, and global warming -- The impact of climate change -- The Kyoto Protocol -- The report of the House of Lords on climate change -- The Stern review of the economics of climate change -- Conclusions on global warming.
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