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Global Price and Income History 1200-1950 – Stage 1 (SES 0433358)

Global Price and Income History 1200-1950 – Stage 1 (SES 0433358) Peter H. Lindert (UC Davis) and Philip T. Hoffman (Caltech). Issues.

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Global Price and Income History 1200-1950 – Stage 1 (SES 0433358)

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  1. Global Price and Income History 1200-1950 – Stage 1 (SES 0433358) Peter H. Lindert (UC Davis) and Philip T. Hoffman (Caltech)

  2. Issues How well or badly did people live around the world in centuries past? When did the North Atlantic countries pull ahead of other countries, or were they always ahead? What were the underlying causes? How can scholars find out more?

  3. Objectives • An international co-laboratory that will eventually be the data site for all quantitative history of prices, wages, and incomes. • Links to the post-1950 Penn World Tables • New historical interpretations

  4. First big task • Conversion of the world’s pre-metric measurements into metric

  5. A new interpretation already achieved this year • New findings on real incomes in East Asia, 18th-early 20th centuries

  6. New primary data sources • New archival discoveries in Beijing

  7. New group, supplying online data • The Global Price and Income History Group (19 scholars, of which 5 US citizens, 6 US residents) Visit us at http://gpih.ucdavis.edu

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