Angus Maddison and Development Economics

Adam Szirmai

No 2011-035, MERIT Working Papers from United Nations University - Maastricht Economic and Social Research Institute on Innovation and Technology (MERIT)

Abstract: This paper was prepared for the Angus Maddison Memorial conference, held in November 2010 at the International Institute of Social History in Amsterdam. The paper reflects on Angus Maddison's contributions to development economics. It focuses on the following issues: 1. quantification in development economics and the framework of proximate and ultimate causality in growth and development; 2 the debate about levels of GDP per capita in the middle of the eighteenth century; 3 Maddison versus the Malthusians; 4 measurement of Chinese Economic Performance in the long run; 5. the impact of Western expansion on the non-Western world and 6. the role of institutions in economic development.

Keywords: Economic Growth; Development Economics; GDP per capita; China; Western Expansion; Institutions (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: N10 O10 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2011
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