La obra de Angus Maddison como referente en el estudio de la Economía Mundial / Angus Maddison?s Work as a Reference in the Study of the World Economy

Abstract

The work completed by the recently deceased British economist Angus Maddison is one of the most important legacies of the second half of the twentieth century for the study of the World Economy. Maddisons major contributions refer to four main issues: data collection and pioneering development of long-term statistics, interpretation of the development of advanced capitalist economies, the study of the causes of the backwardness of the less development economies and the comparative analysis of the patterns of economic development and global structural change and interaction among its components. This article briey reviews the major milestones of the prolic work of Maddison in relation to these aspects, with the aim of highlighting its great relevance for the present and the future study of the World Economy.