The West’s economic growth and lead in technology goes back much further than the Industrial Revolution and has been sustained by the continuing interplay of scientific inquiry and everyday experience ...

Angus Maddison, 83, an economist whose research revealed the causes of wealth differences between nations, died April 24 in Thourotte, France, according to an announcement from the University of ...

We mourn the loss of an intellectual giant—Angus Maddison has died. Maddison was the author of Growth and Interaction in the World Economy: The Roots of Modernity, which explores the causes of the ...

Angus Maddison, the late professor of economics at the University of Groningen, never won a Nobel Prize for economics, but he did leave behind an enduring legacy in the form of his income estimates ...

Some people try to forecast the future. Angus Maddison devoted his life to forecasting the past. Professor Maddison, a British-born economic historian with a compulsion for quantification, spent many ...

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