Baubeau, Patrice; Cazelles, Bernard - In: Cliometrica, Journal of Historical Economics and … 3 (2009) 3, pp. 275-300
Although 50 years of scientific work has been invested in building retrospective economic time series, their reliability is still debated, a good example being the two competing nineteenth century French GNP series. Instead of trying to bring up some new details to gauge their respective...