Angus Maddison

Biographic Data

ID530255
NAMEAngus Maddison
GIVEN NAMESAngus
FAMILY NAMEMaddison
SIGNATUREMADDISON A
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Groningen
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS44
TOTAL CITATIONS721
AUTHOR COUNT44
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1952
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2007
H-INDEX7

  • Contours of the World Economy, 1–2030 AD: Essays in Macro-Economic History

    Angus MaddisonBOOKContours of the World Economy…2007

    This book seeks to identify the forces which explain how and why some parts of the world have grown rich and others have lagged behind. Encompassing 2000 years of history, part 1 begins with the Roman Empire and explores the key factors that have influenced economic development in Africa, Asia, the Americas and Europe. Part 2 covers the development of macroeconomic tools of analysis from the 17th century to the present. Part 3 looks to the future…

  • Fluctuations in the momentum of growth within the capitalist epoch

    Open AccessAngus MaddisonARTICLECliometrica2007

    This paper reviews the history of cyclical and long wave analysis and examines the evidence on changes in the momentum of economic growth in 16 advanced capitalist countries from 1820 to 2001. It assesses the work of the main Business Cycle Research Institutes in Western Europe the USA and Russia, as well as that of Kondratieff, Kuznets, Schumpeter, Abramovitz and the long-wave revivalists-Rostow, Mandel and Mensch. It concludes that the existenc…

  • L'économie chinoise: Une perspective historique – Deuxième édition, révisée et mise à jour

    Angus MaddisonBOOKL'économie chinoise2007References: 31

    pour l'alimentation et l'agriculture a bien voulu me laisser compulser ses fichiers de données sur la production agricole chinoise

  • Chinese Economic Performance in the Long Run - Second Edition, Revised and Updated

    Angus MaddisonBOOKChinese Economic Performance in…2007Cited by: 14References: 19

    The OECD is a unique forum where the governments of 30 democracies work together to address the economic, social and environmental challenges of globalisation.The OECD is also at the forefront of efforts to understand and to help governments respond to new developments and concerns, such as corporate governance, the information economy and the challenges of an ageing population.The Organisation provides a setting where governments can compare pol…

  • The World Economy: Volume 1: A Millennial Perspective and Volume 2: Historical Statistics

    Angus MaddisonBOOKThe World Economy2006

    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 together estimates of world GDP for the past 2000 years and provide a unique perspective on the rise and fall of e…

  • Quantifying and interpreting world development: Macromeasurement before and after Colin Clark

    Open AccessAngus MaddisonARTICLEAustralian Economic History Review2004

    This article is an appraisal of the contributions of Colin Clark to the art of macroeconomic measurement. It traces his place in the historical tradition in this field, provides biographical background and analyses his contributions to national income measurement, international comparisons, agricultural development and the impact of population growth

  • La economìa de occidente y la del resto del mundo en el último milenio

    Open AccessAngus MaddisonARTICLERevista de Historia Económica /…2004References: 21

    En este ensayo se mantiene que Europa Occidental inició su despegue económico con respecto al resto del mundo durante la Edad Moderna o incluso la Baja Edad Media. Empleando la última información cuantitativa disponible, se argumenta que, entre los años 1000 y 1820, el PIB por habitante de Europa Occidental se multiplicó por tres, frente a un crecimiento medio de sólo el 33 por 100 en el resto del mundo. Entre los factores responsables de esta di…

  • The world economy: Historical Statistics

    Angus MaddisonBOOKThe world economy2003

    Maddison offers insights into the history and political influence of national accounts and national accounting. He demonstrates that such statistical data can enlighten the contemporary and later observer in the analysis of economic phenomena such as growth, market formation and income distribution. This approach is particularly interesting for developing countries which often lack the expertise or data to produce good national accounts and are t…

  • Die Weltwirtschaft: Eine Millenniumsperspektive

    Angus MaddisonBOOKDie Weltwirtschaft2003

    Angus Maddison bietet einen umfassenden Überblick über Wachstum und Niveau der Weltbevölkerung seit dem Jahr 1000. In diesem Zeitraum wuchs die Bevölkerung um das 22fache, das Pro-Kopf-BIP um das 13fache und das Welt-BIP um nahezu das 300fache. Das größte Wachstum wiesen die heute reichen Länder auf (in Westeuropa, Nordamerika, Australasien sowie Japan). Die Kluft zwischen der führenden Volkswirtschaft der Welt – Vereinigte Staaten – und den ärms…

  • L'économie mondiale: Statistiques Historiques

    Angus MaddisonBOOKL'économie mondiale2003Cited by: 1References: 29

    personnel et non commercial uniquement.Sauf autorisation, la duplication, la location, le prêt, l'utilisation de ce produit pour exécution publique sont interdits.Ce programme, les données y afférantes et d'autres éléments doivent donc être traités comme toute autre documentation sur laquelle s'exerce la protection par le droit d'auteur

  • The World Economy: Historical Statistics

    Angus MaddisonBOOKDevelopment Centre Studies The…2003Cited by: 509References: 57

    Pursuant to Article 1 of the Convention signed in Paris on 14th December 1960, and which came into force on 30th September 1961, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) shall promote policies designed:-to achieve the highest sustainable economic growth and employment and a rising standard of living in Member countries, while maintaining financial stability, and thus to contribute to the development of the world economy;-…

  • Globalisation: Australian impacts

    Open AccessJames R Levy, Christopher Sheil et al.ARTICLELabour History2002

  • L'économie chinoise: Une perspective historique

    Angus MaddisonBOOKL'économie chinoise1998Cited by: 1References: 32

    OCDE) a pour objectif de promouvoir des politiques visant :-à réaliser la plus forte expansion de l'économie et de l'emploi et une progression du niveau de vie dans les pays Membres, tout en maintenant la stabilité financière, et à contribuer ainsi au développement de l'économie mondiale ; -à contribuer à une saine expansion économique dans les pays Membres, ainsi que les pays non membres, en voie de développement économique ; -à contribuer à l'e…

  • Chinese Economic Performance in the Long Run

    Angus MaddisonBOOKChinese Economic Performance in…1998Cited by: 53References: 19

    Pursuant to Article 1 of the Convention signed in Paris on 14th December 1960, and which came into force on 30th September 1961, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) shall promote policies designed:-to achieve the highest sustainable economic growth and employment and a rising standard of living in Member countries, while maintaining financial stability, and thus to contribute to the development of the world economy; …

  • Explaining the Economic Performance of Nations: Essays in Time and Space

    Angus MaddisonBOOKExplaining the Economic…1995

    This important collection of his work – including a number of original new essays – offers an authoritative analysis of the economic performance of nations. Drawing extensively on quantitative and qualitative evidence, Professor Maddison provides a clear view of why growth rates differ, why real income and productivity spreads are so wide, and why the pace of growth has varied over time. The first section features essays which provide an analytic…

  • Origins and Impact of the Welfare State, 1883-1983

    Angus MaddisonCHAPTERExplaining the Economic…1995

  • La croissance economique mondiale. Les lecons du long terme

    Open AccessAngus MaddisonARTICLEPopulation1992Cited by: 1

    Maddison Angus. La croissance économique mondiale. Les leçons du long terme. In: Population, 47e année, n°6, 1992. Hommage à Alfred Sauvy. pp. 1555-1565

  • Dynamic forces in capitalist development: A Long-Run Comparative View

    Angus MaddisonBOOKDynamic forces in capitalist…1991Cited by: 71

  • The World Economy in the Twentieth Century

    Derek H Aldcroft, Angus MaddisonARTICLEThe Economic History Review1991

  • Economic Growth in Indonesia, 1820-1940

    Ian Brown, Angus Maddison et al.ARTICLEThe Economic History Review1991

  • Economic Growth in Indonesia, 1820-1940

    Donald R Snodgra, Donald R Snodgrass et al.ARTICLEPacific Affairs1991

  • Dutch Income in and from Indonesia 1700-1938

    Open AccessAngus MaddisonARTICLEModern Asian Studies1989Cited by: 20References: 21

    This paper attempts to establish broad orders of magnitude for the colonial period as a whole, and the results are necessarily rough and tentative. Nevertheless, this kind of quantitative macroestimation is useful in illuminating the plausible size of the magnitudes which are usually implicit in qualitative assessment

  • Ultimate and proximate growth causality: A critique of Mancur Olson on the rise and decline of nations 1

    Angus MaddisonARTICLEScandinavian Economic History…1988

    In the past three decades analysis of the "proximate" causes of economic growth has been greatly enriched by both theoretical developments and quantitative studies. Technocratic supply-side growth accounts are available in considerable sophistication and detail,2 but analysis of deeper causality is still rare

  • Alternative estimates of the real product of India, 1900-46

    Open AccessAngus MaddisonARTICLEThe Indian Economic & Social…1985Cited by: 2References: 4

  • Phases of Capitalist Development

    John Mccombie, John S L McCombie et al.REVIEWThe Economic Journal1983Cited by: 1

    Journal Article Phases of Capitalist Development Get access Phases of Capitalist Development. By ANGUS MADDISON (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1982. Pp. ix 4- 274. £15.00 hardback, £5.95 paperback.) John S. L. McCombie John S. L. McCombie University of Hull Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, Volume 93, Issue 370, 1 June 1983, Pages 428–429, https://doi.org/10.2307/2232808 Published: 0…