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Contours of the world economy, 1-2030 AD essays in macro-economic history /

Основен автор: Maddison, Angus.
Автор-организации: ebrary, Inc.
Формат: Електронен
Език: English
Публикувано: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007.
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Съдържание:
  • The contours of world development 2
  • The history of macro-measurement 5
  • The shape of things to come 6
  • Contours of world development, 1
  • 2003AD
  • 1the Roman Empire and its economy 11
  • Introduction 11
  • Key characteristics accounting for Roman success in empire building 13
  • Conquest of the Italian Peninsula, 396
  • 191BC 17
  • The empire building process 18
  • The disintegration of the empire 30
  • Roman demography 32
  • Roman income 44
  • Endnotes 61
  • Bibliography 62
  • 2The resurrection of Western Europe and the transformation of the americas 69
  • Why and when did the west get rich? 69
  • The driving forces that explain the acceleration in western growth since 1820 73
  • Changes in the structure of demand and employment 74
  • The european transformation of the Americas, 1500
  • 1820 88
  • Endnotes 105
  • References 108
  • 3The interaction between Asia and the West, 1500
  • 2003 111
  • European
  • Asian interaction from 1500 to 1820 112
  • The impact of Asian trade on Europe, 1500
  • 1820 115
  • The impact of Europe on Asia, 1500
  • 1820 116
  • Endnotes 178
  • References 179
  • 4The impact of Islam and Europe on African development: 1
  • 2003AD 183
  • Introduction 183
  • The European impact on North Africa before the seventh century 185
  • The Islamic conquest and its implications 188
  • Egypt as Islamic state 192
  • The Maghreb and the initiation of Trans-Saharan trade in gold and slaves 206
  • The changing character of Moroccan dynasties and their interaction with Europe and Black Africa 209
  • Black Africa and the impact of Islam 214
  • The European encounter with Africa 217
  • Africa from 1820 to 1960 227
  • Post-colonial Africa, 1960 onwards 231
  • Appendix 237
  • Endnotes 239
  • References 240
  • Advances in macro-measurement since 1665
  • 5political arithmeticians and historical demographers: the pioneers of macro-measurement 249
  • William Petty (1623
  • 87) 250
  • John Graunt: the first demographer (1620
  • 74) 256
  • Gregory King (1648
  • 1712) and Charles Davenant (1656
  • 1714) 258
  • Patrick Colquhoun (1745
  • 1820) 282
  • French political arithmetic, 1695
  • 1707 284
  • Macro-measurement in the nineteenth and first half of the twentieth century 287
  • Bibliography 288
  • 6Modern macro-measurement: how far have we come? 294
  • Development of macro-measurement as a tool of economic policy since 1950 295
  • Quantifying and interpreting world economic growth from 1820 onwards 301
  • Economic performance in the merchant capitalist epoch: 1500
  • 1820 307
  • The roots of modernity: 'takeoff' or long apprenticeship 315
  • Appendices 316
  • Endnotes 321
  • Bibliography 323
  • The shape of things to come
  • 7the world economy in 2030 335
  • Projections of population and changes in demographic characteristics 335
  • Assumptions underlying the projections of per capita GDP 338
  • The relationship between economic growth, energy consumption, carbon emissions, and global warming 347
  • The impact of climate change 360
  • The Kyoto Protocol 362
  • The report of the House of Lords on climate change 362
  • The Stern review of the economics of climate change 363
  • Conclusions on global warming 366.