Explaining the Economic Performance of Nations: Essays in Time and Space (Economists of the Twentieth Century)
by Angus Maddison
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Angus Maddison has made a major contribution to our understanding of the comparative, historical and quantitative aspects of economic growth. This important collection of his work - including a number of original new essays - offers an authoritative analysis of the economic performance of nations. Drawing extensively on quantitative and qualitative evidence, Professor Maddison provides a clear view of why growth rates differ, why real income and productivity spreads are so wide, and why the show more pace of growth has varied over time. The first section features essays which provide an analytical framework for causal analysis of growth performance, this is followed by papers on investment and capital stock estimation, savings behaviour and measurement of economic performance levels. There are three essays on the roots of economic 'backwardness' and the final section deals with the effect of economic and social policy on the performance of advanced capitalist countries. These essays offer a depth of historical and interspatial perspective which is unrivalled. In addition to focusing on the influences of institutions, ideology and colonialism, Professor Maddison's analysis makes sophisticated use of the growth accounting approach. A specially-written autobiographical essay has also been included. show lessTags
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Angus Maddison is Emeritus Professor of Economic Growth and Development at the University of Groningen. He held a number of senior positions in OEEC and OECD between 1953 and 1978, and has been a policy advisor to governments in Brazil, Ghana, Greece, Mexico and Pakistan. He is the author of twenty books on the long run economic performance of show more nations, and interactions within the world economy; and has built up an international network of scholars working in this field. He is a fellow of the British Academy, Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and an honorary fellow of Selwyn College, Cambridge. show less
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