On 6 and 7 November 2010 about 70 close colleagues, friends and family of Angus gathered in Amsterdam to celebrate Angus’ work and life.
Saturday 6 November |
| 12:00 - 13.00 Lunch |
13.00 - 13.10 Welcome by Jan Luiten van Zanden, Bart van Ark and Herman de Jong |
13.10 - 14.00 Keynote speech: Nicholas Crafts
What Were the Real Growth Penalties of Britain’s Early Start? [PRESENTATION] |
14.00 - 14.50 Keynote speech: Jan Luiten van Zanden
Measuring pre 1820 economic growth. How right/wrong are the pre 1820 Maddison
estimates? [PRESENTATION] |
14.50 - 15.20 Coffee/Tea break |
15.20 - 16.30 Session One: Measuring comparative performance in historical perspective. Chair: Herman de Jong
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Leandro Prados de la Escosura: Assessing the Bias in Spliced GDP Series: Evidence from Spain’s National Accounts, 1954-2000 [PRESENTATION] |
Debin Ma: Asian Historical National Accounts: Issues and Agenda [PRESENTATION] |
Pieter Woltjer and Herman de Jong: Output and productivity measurement in a US/UK comparison, 1900–1950: reconciling sectoral benchmarks and time series [PAPER] [PRESENTATION] |
16.30 - 17.45 Session Two: Recent developments in price and PPP measurement. Chair: Bart van Ark
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Robert J. Gordon: Issues in price measurement in U.S. economic growth during the early 20th century |
Alan Heston: The Flaw of One Price; Reflections on the ICP [PAPER] |
Marcel Timmer: The Future of ICOP and Penn World Tables [PRESENTATION] |
20:00 - Memorial dinner in honour of Angus Maddison – in presence of Maddison family |
Sunday 7 November
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| 09.00 - 10.15 Session Three: Economic Growth During Ancient Times. Chair: Jan Luiten van Zanden
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Branko Milanovic: Income level and income inequality in the Euro-Mediterranean region: from the Principate to the Islamic conquest [PAPER] |
Peter Foldvari and Bas van Leeuwen: Comparing per capita income in the Hellenistic world: The case of Mesopotamia [PAPER] |
Willem M. Jongman: How bad is too bad? Measuring economic performance when the data seem really bad> |
10.15 - 11.00 Keynote speech: Stephen Broadberry |
11.00 - 11.30 Coffee Break |
11.30 - 12.45 Session Four: Global Growth in Current Times. Chair: Bart van Ark
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Andre Hofman: Latin America’s Bicentenary: Long run performance in an international comparative perspective, 1500-2010 [PRESENTATION] |
Kyoji Fukao: Revisiting Accumulation and Assimilation:
New Evidence on the Role of Productivity and Capital Accumulation in Asia in Historical Perspective [PRESENTATION] |
Bart van Ark: How Unique are Current Times? Global Growth and Crises in Historical Perspective [PRESENTATION] |
12.45 - 13.30 Keynote speech: Eddy Szirmai
Angus Maddison and Development Economics [PAPER] |
13.30 - 14.30 Lunch |
