The World Economy: A Millennial Perspective
The book analyses changes in world income and population over the past two millennia
in a comprehensive way, identifies the forces which explain the success of the rich
countries, explores the obstacles which hindered advance in regions and countries
which lagged behind, and scrutinises the interaction between the rich countries and
the rest. As with my earlier
books, the causal analysis is supported by an extensive framework of macroeconomic
statistics.
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Foreword
Acknowledgements
Preface
Chapter 1. The Contours of World Development
I. The Nature and Welfare Implications of Population Change
II. GDP per Capita
Chapter 2. The Impact of Western Development on the Rest of the World,
1000-1950
I. Europes Decline from the First to Tenth Centuries
II. Western Europe Recovers and Forges Ahead, 1000-1500
III. The Venetian Republic
IV. Portugal
V. The Trading World of the Indian Ocean
VI. The Trading World of China, Japan and the Philippines
VII. The Portuguese in Brazil
VIII. The Netherlands
IX. Britain
X. The Impact of British Expansion in the Americas, Africa and Asia
Chapter 3. The World Economy in the Second Half of the Twentieth Century
I. Advanced Capitalist Countries
II. Resurgent Asia
III. Problem Economies of East Asia
IV. West Asia
V. Latin America
VI. The Transition Process in the Former USSR and Eastern Europe
VII. Africa
Appendix A World Population, GDP and GDP Per Capita, Benchmark Years,
1820–1998
Appendix B World Population, GDP and GDP Per Capita Before 1820
Appendix C Annual Estimates of Population, GDP and GDP Per Capita for
124 Countries, Seven Regions, and the World 1950-1998
Appendix D Measuring Growth and Levels of Performance in 27 Formerly
Communist Countries, 1990-1998
Appendix E Employment, Working Hours, and Labour Productivity
Appendix F Volume and Value of Exports, 1820-1998
Bibliography
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