The World Economy

By Angus Maddison,

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The World Economy 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…

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Maddison weaves varied measures into a history of GDP, population, and perforce GDP per capita of the world and its regions and of countries as the data allow, going back to ‘year 0’ (the year that’s not between 1 BC and 1 AD).

His effort is continued by the Maddison Project.

Careful measurement could be said to differentiate the scientific from the discursive disciplines.

From Clifford's list on the global economy.

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