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Modeling the Human Trajectory (openphilanthropy.org)
39 points by mnoronha on July 19, 2020 | hide | past | favorite | 2 comments



Angus Maddison's estimates of historical GDP are outdated now. I'd look at works like Broadberry's China, Europe and the Great Divergence: A Study in Historical National Accounting, 980-1850 [1].

[1]https://www.economics.ox.ac.uk/oxford-economic-and-social-hi...


> The human economy has grown super-exponentially. The bigger it has gotten, the faster it has doubled, on average. The global economy churned out $74 trillion in goods and services in 2019, twice as much as in 2000.

Let's ban ads already.




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