Adopting a new approach to historical data, Peter H Lindert and Jeffrey G Williamson have
charted the history of American incomes‐and income inequality‐since colonial times. Here …

This publication brings together two reference works by Angus Maddison: The World
Economy: A Millennial Perspective, first published in 2001 and The World Economy …

The Invisible Hand? offers a radical departure from the conventional wisdom of economists
and economic historians, by showing that'factor markets' and the economies dominated by …

Lawscape: Property, Environment, Law considers the ways in which property law transforms
both natural environments and social economies. Addressing law's relationship to land and …

Angus Maddison présente un panorama complet de la croissance et des niveaux de la
population mondiale depuis l'an Mil lorsque les pays riches d'aujourd'hui étaient plus …

Angus Maddison visited Nova University at Lisbon in 1986 and that is where we first met. I
already knew of his work, since my late father, himself an economic historian, had …

Building social tables in the tradition of Gregory King, we develop new estimates suggesting
that between 1774 and 1800 American incomes fell in real per capita terms. The colonial …

Angus Maddison provides a comprehensive view of the growth and levels of world
population since the year 1000 when rich countries of today were poorer than Asia and …

When eighteenth-century Britons contemplated their possessions in the West Indies what
struck them most was the wealth of these small tropical islands. This chapter reports new …

Building what we call social tables, this paper quantifies the level and inequality of American
incomes from 1774 to 1860. In 1774 the American colonies had average incomes exceeding …