This paper surveys the literature on historical national accounting, discusses the importance
of relative income benchmarks for, in particular, historical income estimates, and presents an …

Are mass violence and catastrophes the only forces that can seriously decrease economic
inequality? To judge by thousands of years of history, the answer is yes. Tracing the global …

Este es un nuevo relato definitivo de la evolución económica de Gran Bretaña desde un
remanso de Europa en 1270 hasta el centro de la economía global en 1870. Un equipo de …

The M addison P roject, initiated in M arch 2010 by a group of close colleagues of A ngus M
addison, aims to develop an effective system of cooperation between scholars to continue M …

In the fourteenth century the Old World witnessed a series of profound and abrupt changes
in the trajectory of long-established historical trends. Transcontinental networks of exchange …

This article provides an overview of recent literature on plagues and other lethal epidemics,
covering the period from late Antiquity to ca. 1800. We analyze the main environmental and …

This book has its origin in a network on energy history, the LEG network (Long-term Energy
and Growth). This came together in 2003 with the aim of providing standardized and …

Abstract The Black Death was the largest demographic shock in European history. We
review the evidence for the origins, spread, and mortality of the disease. We document that it …

This open access book analyses Iberian expansion by using knowledge accumulated in
recent years to test some of the most important theories regarding Europe's economic …

Recent research has explored the distributive consequences of major historical epidemics,
and the current crisis triggered by COVID-19 prompts us to look at the past for insights about …