Template-type: ReDIF-Paper 1.0
Author-Name: Szirmai, Adam
Author-Email: szirmai@merit.unu.edu
Author-Workplace-Name: UNU-MERIT, and Maastricht Graduate School of Governance,
	 Maastricht University
Title: Angus Maddison and Development Economics
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.
Classification-JEL: N10, O10
Keywords: Economic Growth, Development Economics, GDP per capita, China,
	 Western Expansion, Institutions 
Series: UNU-MERIT Working Papers
Creation-Date: 2011
Number: 2011-035
File-URL: https://unu-merit.nl/publications/wppdf/2011/wp2011-035.pdf
File-Format: application/pdf
File-Size: 275 Kb
Handle: RePEc:unm:unumer:2011035