Contours of the World Economy 1-2030 AD
Essays in Macro-Economic History
by Angus Maddison · first published 2007
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…rebuttal, provide sources and links, as the commenter I linked to has." That sounds awfully like "don't repeat things you heard elsewhere, show things you heard elsewhere instead"! I'm sourcing from Contours of the World Economy 1-2030 AD, FYI. It hooked me to the notion of quantitatively studying pre-modern economies. "The colonial govt. did increase area under irrigation: to force farmers to grow cotton and Indigo, bought from them…
on “The East India Company, the original corporate raiders” ↗…Maddison who uses Sestertius records to find wheat equivalent figure for national disposable income and makes comparisons based off that. Links to several of Angus Maddison books, I assume it is this: Contours of the World Economy 1-2030 AD: Essays in Macro-Economic History
on “Roman Empire per capita GDP shows the Romans were poorer than any 2015 country” ↗