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Some overlap exists with the first generation of ‘reapers’ since, happily, human life spans three score years and ten. But a convenient division is between the ‘moderns’ — Yates, Maizels, Maddison and Bairoch — and the earlier tradition of the ‘Stockholm’ group, the Wicksell Lectures, and their heirs. In many, or even most, cases the data are precisely the same.
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P. Lamartine Yates, Forty Years of Foreign Trade (London, 1959).
Alfred Maizels, Industrial Growth of World Trade: An Empirical Study of Trends in Production, Consumption and Trade from 1899–1959 (Cambridge, 1963) pp. 443 and 455ff.
Angus Maddison, ‘Growth and Fluctuation in the World Economy, 1870–1960’, Banca Nazionale del Lavoro, Quarterly Review, 61 (1962) p. 127.
Angus Maddison, Phases of Capitalist Development (Oxford, 1982), Appendix F.
Phyllis Deane and W. A. Cole, British Economic Growth 1688–1959: Trends and Structure (Cambridge, 2nd edn 1967) pp. 311–12.
Paul Bairoch, ‘European Foreign Trade in the XIX Century: the Development of the Volume and Value of Exports (Preliminary Results)’, Journal of European Economic History, 2:1 (Spring 1973);
also ‘Geographical Structure and Trade Balance of European Foreign Trade from 1800 to 1970’, JEEH, 3:3 (Winter 1974);
and ‘Europe’s Gross National Product: 1800–1975’, JEEH, 5:2 (Fall 1976).
Bairoch, The Economic Development of the Third World since 1900 (London, 1975) p. 92.
Bairoch, ‘International Industrialization Levels from 1750 to 1980’, Journal of European Economic History, 11:2 (Spring 1982).
S. B. Saul, ‘The Export Economy, 1870–1914’, Yorkshire Bulletin of Economic and Social Research, 17:1 (May 1965), passim.
A. J. Brown, Introduction to the World Economy (London, 1959) pp. 145, 147 and 148.
H. Myint, The Economics of Developing Countries (fifth edn, London 1980) p. 22.
L. J. Zimmermann, ‘The Distribution of World Income, 1860–1960’ in Egbert de Vries (ed.) Essays on Unbalanced Growth: A Century of Disparity and Convergence (The Hague, 1962) passim.
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Platt, D.C.M. (1989). The Moderns. In: Mickey Mouse Numbers in World History. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-10300-3_5
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