Historiography and Quantitative GDP Debates on the 'Great Divergence' (1970-2015)

1. Early cliometric GDP reconstructions spread widely

   Jan 1, 1970Labels: Cliometrics, National accounts

   • Britannica

2. Eric Jones publishes *The European Miracle*

   Jan 1, 1981Labels: Eric L, The European

   • Britannica
   • Wikipedia

3. Crafts–Harley restate slower Industrial Revolution growth

   Jan 1, 1992Labels: A W, E Harley

   • RePEc

4. Maddison publishes global GDP benchmarks, 1820–1992

   Jan 1, 1995Labels: Angus Maddison, Maddison dataset

   • OpenLibrary
   • EconPapers

5. Samuel Huntington coins “Great Divergence” terminology

   Jan 1, 1996Labels: Samuel P

   • Wikipedia

6. Landes argues for long-standing Western advantages

   Jan 1, 1998Labels: David S, The Wealth

   • Wikipedia
   • OUP Review

7. Pomeranz publishes *The Great Divergence*

   Jan 1, 2000Labels: Kenneth Pomeranz, The Great

   • JSTOR
   • USC China

8. AJR publish “Colonial Origins” institutions paper

   Dec 1, 2001Labels: Acemoglu Johnson, Colonial Origins

   • Wikipedia

9. Goldstone reframes “Rise of the West” as episodes

   Sep 1, 2002Labels: Jack Goldstone

   • JWH DOI

10. Broadberry and Gupta challenge “late divergence” using wages

    Sep 29, 2003Labels: Broadberry, Gupta

    • ResearchGate

11. Allen links Britain’s innovation to high wages and cheap energy

    Jan 1, 2009Labels: Robert C

    • Cambridge

12. Maddison Project launches to revise and extend estimates

    Mar 1, 2010Labels: Maddison Project

    • Wikipedia
    • EHR Listing

13. Vries synthesizes debates on why modern growth emerged

    Oct 1, 2013Labels: Peer Vries, Escaping Poverty

    • IUCAT
    • ResearchGate

14. Bolt and van Zanden publish Maddison Project methods paper

    Mar 11, 2014Labels: Bolt, Jan L

    • EHR Issue
    • RePEc

15. Broadberry and coauthors reconstruct Britain’s GDP back to 1270

    Jan 5, 2015Labels: Broadberry team

    • Cambridge