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.

Author: Angus Maddison

Publisher: OUP Oxford

ISBN: 9780191647581

Category: Business & Economics

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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 and considers what the shape of the world economy might be in 2030. Combining both the close quantitative analysis for which Professor Maddison is famous with a more qualitative approach that takes into account the complexity of the forces at work, this book provides students and all interested readers with a totally fascinating overview of world economic history. Professor Maddison has the unique ability to synthesise vast amounts of information into a clear narrative flow that entertains as well as informs, making this text an invaluable resource for all students and scholars, and anyone interested in trying to understand why some parts of the World are so much richer than others.

Table 3.1 Levels of per capita GDP ad 1—2003 (1990 international dollars) Source: A. Maddison, Contours of the World Economy, 1—2030 AD (Oxford, 2007), p. 70, table 2.1 1 1000 1500 1820 1870 1913 1950 1973 2003 West 569 426 753 1,202 ...

Author: Alex Callinicos

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

ISBN: 9780745658230

Category: Political Science

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In Imperialism and Global Political Economy Alex Callinicos intervenes in one of the main political and intellectual debates of the day. The global policies of the United States in the past decade have encouraged the widespread belief that we live in a new era of imperialism. But is this belief true, and what does ‘imperialism’ mean? Callinicos explores these questions in this wide-ranging book. In the first part, he critically assesses the classical theories of imperialism developed in the era of the First World War by Marxists such as Lenin, Luxemburg, and Bukharin and by the Liberal economist J.A. Hobson. He then outlines a theory of the relationship between capitalism as an economic system and the international state system, carving out a distinctive position compared to other contemporary theorists of empire and imperialism such as Antonio Negri, David Harvey, Giovanni Arrighi, and Ellen Wood. In the second half of Imperialism and Global Political Economy Callinicos traces the history of capitalist imperialism from the Dutch East India Company to the specific patterns of economic and geopolitical competition in the contemporary era of American decline and Chinese expansion. Imperialism, he concludes, is far from dead.

1 The projections I use in this book are based on the work of Angus Maddison, Contours of the World Economy, 1–2030 AD: Essays in Macro-economic History, (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007); and idem, 'Asia in the World Economy ...

Author: Wendy Dobson

Publisher: University of Toronto Press

ISBN: 9781442696648

Category: Business & Economics

Page: 224

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The rapid growth, diversity and strategic importance of the emerging Chinese and Indian economies have fired the world's imagination with both hopes and fears for the future. Wendy Dobson's perceptive analysis of changing institutions, demographics, and politics paints a thoughtful and surprising picture of India and China as economic powerhouses in the year 2030. Examining past events and current trends, Gravity Shift offers bold predictions of the changes we can expect in key economic and political institutions in China and India, changes that will inform and shape tomorrow's business decisions. Dobson's work anticipates that by 2030, China's economy will be larger than those of the United States, India, and Japan, though its population will be ageing and its growth slowing. India will also come into its own, making major strides in modernizing its vast rural population, vanquishing illiteracy, and emerging as an innovative manufacturing powerhouse. A China-India free trade agreement could well become the foundation of a cooperative Asian economic community. As the world re-evaluates business practices in the wake of the global economic crisis, Gravity Shift provides a clear vision of how India and China will reshape the Asian region, to inform and transform global economic institutions.

Why Economics Can't Explain the Modern World Deirdre Nansen McCloskey. Role of Public Policy for Cities. ... An Introduction to the Languages of the World. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ... Contours of the World Economy, 1–2030 AD.

Author: Deirdre Nansen McCloskey

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

ISBN: 9780226556666

Category: Business & Economics

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The big economic story of our times is not the Great Recession. It is how China and India began to embrace neoliberal ideas of economics and attributed a sense of dignity and liberty to the bourgeoisie they had denied for so long. The result was an explosion in economic growth and proof that economic change depends less on foreign trade, investment, or material causes, and a whole lot more on ideas and what people believe. Or so says Deirdre N. McCloskey in Bourgeois Dignity, a fiercely contrarian history that wages a similar argument about economics in the West. Here she turns her attention to seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Europe to reconsider the birth of the industrial revolution and the rise of capitalism. According to McCloskey, our modern world was not the product of new markets and innovations, but rather the result of shifting opinions about them. During this time, talk of private property, commerce, and even the bourgeoisie itself radically altered, becoming far more approving and flying in the face of prejudices several millennia old. The wealth of nations, then, didn’t grow so dramatically because of economic factors: it grew because rhetoric about markets and free enterprise finally became enthusiastic and encouraging of their inherent dignity. An utterly fascinating sequel to her critically acclaimed book The Bourgeois Virtues, Bourgeois Dignity is a feast of intellectual riches from one of our most spirited and ambitious historians—a work that will forever change our understanding of how the power of persuasion shapes our economic lives.

MADDISON A. (2006), “Do Official Statistics Exaggerate China's GDP Growth? A Reply to Carsten Holz”, Review of Income and Wealth, March, pp.121-126. MADDISON A. (2007), Contours of The World Economy, 1-2030 AD; Essays in Macroeconomic ...

Author: Maddison Angus

Publisher: OECD Publishing

ISBN: 9789264037632

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This book uses a comparative approach to explain why China’s role in the world economy has changed so dramatically in the last thousand years. This edition has been revised and updated and Chapter 4 is new. It concludes that China will resume its role as the world's largest economy by 2015.

Contours of the World Economy, 1–2030 AD. Oxford: Oxford University Press; World Bank Open Data aForecast As a result, China's GDP has grown more than 15 times over the first 30 years of market reforms, and the average per capita income ...

Author: Alexander Bulatov

Publisher: Springer Nature

ISBN: 9783031203282

Category: Business & Economics

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This textbook offers a comprehensive picture of the world economy, the global business environment, and international business. The book is divided into three parts, the first of which introduces readers to the essentials of the world economy, including its typology, key concepts and theories, the dynamics of the world economy, and key actors and institutions. It also addresses macroeconomic and financial indicators for economic growth and forecasting and discusses major modern trends and problems, such as the Fourth Industrial Revolution, patterns of globalization, shifts in global economic power, and developmental, social and environmental challenges. In turn, the second part focuses on the global business environments, presenting country and regional studies. The third part addresses macro and micro aspects of international business, featuring contributions on topics such as global economic governance, global capital flows, multinational corporations, global value chains, international trade and its regulation and practice, international knowledge transfer, international labor migration as well as foreign aid, external debt, and business culture in international business.

16-1 historiCal perspeCtive on the eConomiC Growth of the past two Centuries 2Angus Maddison, Contours of the World Economy, 1–2030 ad: Essays. by a factor of nearly 10, and the increase in the changed very little during the 800 years ...

Author: James D. Gwartney

Publisher: Cengage Learning

ISBN: 9781305176782

Category: Business & Economics

Page: 784

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ECONOMICS: PRIVATE AND PUBLIC CHOICE, Fifteenth Edition, reflects current economic conditions, enabling students to apply economic concepts to the world around them. The up-to-date text includes analysis and explanation of measures of economic activity in today's market. It also includes highlights of the recession of 2008-2009, and an in-depth look at the lives and contributions of notable economists. ECONOMICS: PRIVATE AND PUBLIC CHOICE dispels common economic myths. The text uses the invisible hand metaphor to explain economic theory, demonstrating how it works to stimulate the economy. Important Notice: Media content referenced within the product description or the product text may not be available in the ebook version.

In reality, Soviet economic power was never really a threat to the United States owing to the vastly superior performance of ... See Maddison, A. (2007), Contours of the World Economy, 1–2030 ad , Oxford University Press, figure 3.5, p.

Author: Andrew Harrison

Publisher: OUP Oxford

ISBN: 9780191037603

Category: Business & Economics

Page: 432

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Andrew Harrison has expertly authored this engaging text on the business environment, offering theoretical rigour, along with a truly global focus, and an understanding of the economic dimensions of the subject. The text takes a unique approach exploring the business environment at different spatial levels (global, international, national, and regional), in different dimensions (culture, ethics, internationalization, markets, technology, and risk) and in the main geopolitical regions (Europe, the Americas, Asia, and Africa). The text is packed with up-to-date case studies that demonstrate how international companies are affected by, and deal with, serious global issues ranging from the Arab uprising to the growing influence of the BRIC countries. Practical insights interspersed in each chapter provide balanced commentary on the key issues and topics discussed, with further research being prompted by related questions. The text is accompanied by an Online Resource Centre, which includes: For Students: Chapter and case study updates Emerging issues Annotated web links Ideas for research topics For Lecturers: Lecture notes PowerPoint slides Assignment scenarios and questions Guidance on discussion questions and cases Figures and tables from the text

86–87 Angus Maddison, Contours Of The World Economy, 1-2030 AD, Oxford University Press, 2007 Seventy-two Specimens of Castes in India according to Christian Missionaries in February 1837 Chandrika Kaul & Ian St. John, The Making of the ...

Author: Johan Andersson

Publisher: Notion Press

ISBN: 9781638736592

Category: Business & Economics

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I might be biased when I say this, but I do believe it – India is the most interesting and fascinating country in the world. At the same time, it is also the most complex. In the beginning of my time in India, I misunderstood many things, misjudged many people and underestimated many ways of doing business. During my years in India, I have learned, adapted and changed. This book is about sharing these learnings and experiences with readers. The typical reader is either the westerner who has lived and worked in India or has worked with Indians or is curious about India as a market. Or it is the Indian who wants to understand how westerners think or work in the Indian context. This book answers many of the questions that are of fundamental importance if one wants to excel or succeed in India. Had I had answers to these kinds of questions, my own runway would have been much shorter in the beginning of my India-journey.

Economic Growth of Nations: Total Output and Production Structure, Beijing: The Commercial Press, 1985. Lal, Deepak. ... Contours of the World Economy, 1–2030 AD: Essays in Macro-Economic History, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007.

Author: Cai Fang

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

ISBN: 9781000738780

Category: Business & Economics

Page: 370

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Cai Fang is one of China’s most distinguished economists. This book elucidates the worldwide significance of China’s economic development over the past 70 years from the perspectives of economic history and growth theory. The Chinese economy has undergone an unprecedented period of growth and development since the reform and opening-up in the late 1970s; a process which the hallmarks of neoclassic economic theory have often proved inadequate to explain. Examining the Chinese economy in the light of Chinese history and the development of the world economy as a whole, the book charts the milestones and critical reforms of China’s economic development, providing insights into unique attributes as well as more generic patterns. The discussion covers multiple hot topics in the field, including the so-called Great Divergence, dual-sector economic development, real-world experience of the reform and opening-up, rural reform, urbanization, economic reform, poverty reduction, the latter day slowdown of China’s economic growth, and China¡ ̄s role in and response to globalization, global supply domination and other headwinds. The book will be a must-read for students, scholars and general readers interested in the Chinese economy, economic development, political economy, and development economics.