Angus Maddison

Angus Maddison ( born December 6, 1926 in Newcastle upon Tyne, † April 24, 2010 in Neuilly -sur -Seine ) was a British economist and professor at the University of Groningen. His specialty was the measurement and analysis of economic growth.

Life and work

Maddison attended from 1938 to 1944 in the Darlington Grammar School (now Queen Elizabeth Sixth Form College) and from 1945 to 1948, the Selwyn College ( Cambridge ). 1948 and 1949 he was a pilot in the Royal Air Force. From 1949 he studied at the universities of McGill and Johns Hopkins. For a year he taught at the University of St. Andrews and a doctorate then.

In 1953, Maddison came to the Organisation for European Economic Cooperation ( OEEC), where he was later head of the Economics Department. In 1963, after the conversion of the Company on the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), Maddison was Deputy Director ( Assistant Director) of the Department of Economic Development. From 1966 he worked as a freelance policy consultant, including for the governments of Ghana and Pakistan. 1969 and 1971 he worked at the Harvard University Center for International Affairs. In 1978 he was appointed professor of history at the University of Groningen.

Maddison was a pioneer in the field of construction of Accounts, in which the values ​​for decades counted back until the year 1 He combined various research techniques to determine the gross domestic product per capita of a country for the past. His work led to a better understanding of the reasons why some countries become rich and others remain poor.

He published a major study on the economic growth of China over the last 2000 years, which has greatly promoted the historical debate about the strengths and weaknesses of Europe and China as two of the leading world economic powers. His estimates of the per capita income of the Roman Empire built on the pioneering work of Keith Hopkins and Raymond W. Goldsmith. The economic development of the whole world he summarized in The World Economy: Historical Statistics and The World Economy: A Millennium Perspective.

Maddison lived in Thourotte in northern France and always had close links with the University of Groningen, where he was one of the main founders of the Groningen Growth and Development Centre, a research group in the Faculty of Economics with a focus on long-term economic development. The built up by Maddison and his colleagues databases, which now include all countries in the world, are one of the most important sources for the long-term analysis of economic growth and are used by researchers from around the world.

On his eightieth birthday Maddison was given the Order of Orange -Nassau awarded, and in 2007 he received an honorary doctorate from the Japanese Hitotsubashi University.

Angus Maddison died on April 24, 2010 at the American Hospital in Paris Neuilly -sur -Seine.

Works

  • Monitoring the World Economy 1820-1992. OECD, Paris, 1995, ISBN 92-64-14549-4.
  • Class Structure and Economic Growth: India and Pakistan since the Moghuls. In 1971.
  • The World Economy: A Millennial Perspective.
  • The World Economy: Historical Statistics.
  • Chinese Economic Performance in the Long Run. Development Centre Studies.
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