Includes bibliographical references and index.

The contours of world development
The history of macro-measurement
The shape of things to come
Contours of world development, 1
2003AD
1the Roman Empire and its economy
Introduction
Key characteristics accounting for Roman success in empire building
Conquest of the Italian Peninsula, 396
191BC
The empire building process
The disintegration of the empire
Roman demography
Roman income
Endnotes
Bibliography
2The resurrection of Western Europe and the transformation of the Americas
Why and when did the west get rich?
The driving forces that explain the acceleration in western growth since 1820
Changes in the structure of demand and employment
The european transformation of the Americas, 1500
1820
Endnotes
References
3The interaction between Asia and the West, 1500
2003
European
Asian interaction from 1500 to 1820
The impact of Asian trade on Europe, 1500
1820
The impact of Europe on Asia, 1500
1820
Endnotes
References
4The impact of Islam and Europe on African development: 1
2003AD
Introduction
The European impact on North Africa before the seventh century
The Islamic conquest and its implications
Egypt as Islamic state
The Maghreb and the initiation of Trans-Saharan trade in gold and slaves
The changing character of Moroccan dynasties and their interaction with Europe and Black Africa
Black Africa and the impact of Islam
The European encounter with Africa
Africa from 1820 to 1960
Post-colonial Africa, 1960 onwards
Appendix
Endnotes
References
Advances in macro-measurement since 1665
5political arithmeticians and historical demographers: the pioneers of macro-measurement
William Petty (1623
87)
John Graunt: the first demographer (1620
74)
Gregory King (1648
1712) and Charles Davenant (1656
1714)
Patrick Colquhoun (1745
1820)
French political arithmetic, 1695
1707
Macro-measurement in the nineteenth and first half of the twentieth century
Bibliography
6Modern macro-measurement: how far have we come?
Development of macro-measurement as a tool of economic policy since 1950
Quantifying and interpreting world economic growth from 1820 onwards
Economic performance in the merchant capitalist epoch: 1500
1820
The roots of modernity: 'take off' or long apprenticeship
Appendices
Endnotes
Bibliography
The shape of things to come
7the world economy in 2030
Projections of population and changes in demographic characteristics
Assumptions underlying the projections of per capita GDP
The relationship between economic growth, energy consumption, carbon emissions, and global warming
The impact of climate change
The Kyoto Protocol
The report of the House of Lords on climate change
The Stern review of the economics of climate change
Conclusions on global warming