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Contours of the world economy, 1-2030 AD : (Record no. 24708)

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020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 9780199227204 (pbk.)
082 00 - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Classification number 330.9 MAD
100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Maddison, Angus.
245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT
Title Contours of the world economy, 1-2030 AD :
Remainder of title essays in macro-economic history /
Statement of responsibility, etc. Angus Maddison.
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC.
Place of publication, distribution, etc. Oxford :
Name of publisher, distributor, etc. Oxford University Press,
Date of publication, distribution, etc. 2007.
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Extent xii, 418 p. ;
Other physical details ill. (some col.), maps. ;
Dimensions 25 cm.
505 0# - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE
Formatted contents note 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.
650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name entry element Economic history.
650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name entry element Macro Economics
650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name entry element Ecoomic growth
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Uniform Resource Identifier <a href="http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0716/2007017534.html">http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0716/2007017534.html</a>
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