The Maddison Project, also known as the Maddison Historical Statistics Project, is a project to collate historical
economic statistics, such as
GDP, GDP per capita, and labor productivity.
It was launched in March 2010 to continue the work of the late economic historian
Angus Maddison
Angus Maddison (6 December 1926 – 24 April 2010) was a distinguished British economist specialising in quantitative macro economic history, including the measurement and analysis of economic growth and development.
Maddison lectured at sev ...
. The project is under the Groningen Growth and Development Centre at the
University of Groningen
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,
[ which also hosts the Penn World Table, another economic statistics project.]
Reception
Development economist Branko Milanović (writing for the World Bank
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),[ development economist Morten Jerven, and billionaire philanthropist ]Bill Gates
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World Development Indicators World Development Indicators (WDI) is the World Bank’s premier compilation of international statistics on global development. Drawing from officially recognized sources and including national, regional, and global estimates, the WDI provides acce ...
), as the three main sources of worldwide economic statistics such as GDP data, with the focus of the Maddison Project being on historical data. Economist Paul Krugman
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has suggested the Maddison Project as a data source for historical debt, growth, and labor output and productivity data.Our World In Data
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It is a project of the Global Cha ...
'', a website with data-driven discussion of a number of topics related to long-run economic and human development, uses the Maddison Project as one of its data sources.
See also
* Penn World Table
* United Nations
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World Development Indicators World Development Indicators (WDI) is the World Bank’s premier compilation of international statistics on global development. Drawing from officially recognized sources and including national, regional, and global estimates, the WDI provides acce ...
* '' The World Economy: Historical Statistics'', a 2004 book by Angus Maddison that is an early precursor of the work done by the Maddison Project
* Angus Maddison statistics of the ten largest economies by GDP (PPP)
References
External links
* {{official website, http://www.ggdc.net/maddison/maddison-project/home.htm
National accounts
Global economic indicators
Welfare economics
2010 establishments in the Netherlands