| Description |
xii, 418 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 25 cm |
| Note |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Contents |
The contours of world development 2 -- The history of macro-measurement 5 -- The shape of things to come 6 -- Contours of world development, 1 -- 2003AD -- 1the Roman Empire and its economy 11 -- Introduction 11 -- Key characteristics accounting for Roman success in empire building 13 -- Conquest of the Italian Peninsula, 396 -- 191BC 17 -- The empire building process 18 -- The disintegration of the empire 30 -- Roman demography 32 -- Roman income 44 -- Endnotes 61 -- Bibliography 62 -- 2The resurrection of Western Europe and the transformation of the americas 69 -- Why and when did the west get rich? 69 -- The driving forces that explain the acceleration in western growth since 1820 73 -- Changes in the structure of demand and employment 74 -- The european transformation of the Americas, 1500 -- 1820 88 -- Endnotes 105 -- References 108 -- 3The interaction between Asia and the West, 1500 -- 2003 111 -- European -- Asian interaction from 1500 to 1820 112 -- The impact of Asian trade on Europe, 1500 -- 1820 115 -- The impact of Europe on Asia, 1500 -- 1820 116 -- Endnotes 178 -- References 179 -- 4The impact of Islam and Europe on African development: 1 -- 2003AD 183 -- Introduction 183 -- The European impact on North Africa before the seventh century 185 -- The Islamic conquest and its implications 188 -- Egypt as Islamic state 192 -- The Maghreb and the initiation of Trans-Saharan trade in gold and slaves 206 -- The changing character of Moroccan dynasties and their interaction with Europe and Black Africa 209 -- Black Africa and the impact of Islam 214 -- The European encounter with Africa 217 -- Africa from 1820 to 1960 227 -- Post-colonial Africa, 1960 onwards 231 -- Appendix 237 -- Endnotes 239 -- References 240 -- Advances in macro-measurement since 1665 -- 5political arithmeticians and historical demographers: the pioneers of macro-measurement 249 -- William Petty (1623 -- 87) 250 -- John Graunt: the first demographer (1620 -- 74) 256 -- Gregory King (1648 -- 1712) and Charles Davenant (1656 -- 1714) 258 -- Patrick Colquhoun (1745 -- 1820) 282 -- French political arithmetic, 1695 -- 1707 284 -- Macro-measurement in the nineteenth and first half of the twentieth century 287 -- Bibliography 288 -- 6Modern macro-measurement: how far have we come? 294 -- Development of macro-measurement as a tool of economic policy since 1950 295 -- Quantifying and interpreting world economic growth from 1820 onwards 301 -- Economic performance in the merchant capitalist epoch: 1500 -- 1820 307 -- The roots of modernity: 'takeoff' or long apprenticeship 315 -- Appendices 316 -- Endnotes 321 -- Bibliography 323 -- The shape of things to come -- 7the world economy in 2030 335 -- Projections of population and changes in demographic characteristics 335 -- Assumptions underlying the projections of per capita GDP 338 -- The relationship between economic growth, energy consumption, carbon emissions, and global warming 347 -- The impact of climate change 360 -- The Kyoto Protocol 362 -- The report of the House of Lords on climate change 362 -- The Stern review of the economics of climate change 363 -- Conclusions on global warming 366 |
| Summary |
This book combines qualitative histories with quantitative data |
| Subjects |
Economic history
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| LC NO |
HC21 .M282 2007 |
| Dewey No |
330.9 22 |
| OCLC # |
123968405 |
| Isrn |
9780199227204 |
| ISBN |
9780199227204 (pbk. ; alk. paper) |
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0199227209 (pbk. ; alk. paper) |
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9780199227211 (hbk. ; alk. paper) |
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0199227217 (hbk. ; alk. paper) |
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9780199227209 (pbk.) |
| Isn/Std # |
(OCoLC)123968405 (OCoLC)779917886 (OCoLC)1154978552 (OCoLC)1156788321 (OCoLC)1160045419 (OCoLC)1166888835 |
| LCCN |
2007017534 |
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