Angus Maddison

Angus Maddison, the great economic historian, whose life work is encapsulated in a strikingly useful (and user-friendly) global-comparative data-set about economic performance and population change (without which my work over the last 8-10 years, including this book, would simply not have been possible) has passed away at the age of 84. http://www.ggdc.net/maddison/