Maddison Project
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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.[1][2][3] It was launched in March 2010 to continue the work of the late economic historian Angus Maddison. The project is under the Groningen Growth and Development Centre at the University of Groningen,[2] which also hosts the Penn World Table, another economic statistics project.[4]
Summary
| Item | Value |
|---|---|
| Start date | March 2010 for the explicit Maddison Project[1] 1960s for the original work by Angus Maddison that was the genesis of the project.[5]Template:Rp |
| Data versioning | Unclear |
| Focus | Historical: identify general ballparks and trends over long time periods. Hence, less focus on getting values correct year-over-year, or on current numbers. |
Data description
Reception
| Person | Affiliation | Qualification | Opinion |
|---|---|---|---|
| Branko Milanović[3] | World Bank | Development economist | Only source for long-run national GDPs going back to 1920s Also, differing conclusions about Chinese GDP and growth rates due to higher estimates of their price levels |
| Morten Jerven[6] | Norwegian University of Life Sciences | Development economist | One of three main sources of GDP numbers |
| Bill Gates[7] | Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation | Smart well-read person | Mostly echoes Jerven |
| Paul Krugman[8] | New York Times | Economist, columnist | Data source for historical debt, growth, and labor output and productivity data. |
See also
- Penn World Table
- World Development Indicators
- 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)
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