This article explores the history of a conceptual world economic order of nations created by statistically minded economists over the last seventy years. Drawing upon work by Colin Clark, Richard Stone, and Simon Kuznets from the 1930s, 1940s, and 1950s, it reconstructs the rise of new economic...

In the vast body of development theoretical knowledge one element has been of a considerable longevity: the abstraction of a Gross Domestic Product to represent a given economic entity. This paper suggests approaching the history of development thinking by travelling with the GDP through this...

Die Ungleichheit zwischen armen und reichen Ländern gehört seit dem Zweiten Weltkrieg zu den wichtigsten Themen der internationalen Politik. Dieses Buch zeigt historisch auf, welche Formen des Wissens dabei global bedeutsam wurden. Im Zentrum steht die Geschichte des zahlenmäßigen Vergleichs...

In the vast body of development theoretical knowledge one element has been of a considerable longevity: the abstraction of a Gross Domestic Product to represent a given economic entity. This paper suggests approaching the history of development thinking by traveling with the GDP through this...