Background
Angus Maddison was born on September, 26 1926 in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, United Kingdom; the son of Thomas and Jane (Walker) Maddison.
Angus Maddison was born on September, 26 1926 in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, United Kingdom; the son of Thomas and Jane (Walker) Maddison.
Angus Maddison received Bachelor degree and Master of Arts from Cambridge University in 1947 and 1951.
Angus Maddison was the joint founder and intellectual leader of the Groningen Growth and Development Centre, a research group within the Faculty of Economics in Groningen that focuses on long-term economic growth. The databases maintained by Maddison and his former colleagues form one of the most important sources for the analysis of long-term economic growth and are used throughout the world by academics and policy analysts.
Maddison also held the position of policy advisor for various institutions, including the governments of Ghana and Pakistan. he visited many other countries and often directly advised the government leaders of countries such as Brazil, Guinea, Mongolia, the USSR and Japan. He had published an authoritative study on economic growth in China over the past twenty centuries.
Maddison's major research interest has been in assessment of forces affecting the economic growth performance of nations. He has devoted a good deal of effort to quantification of output levels and growth, of labour and capital inputs, of productivity, structural change and international trade in an articulate growthaccounting framework in the Clark, Kuznets, Kendrick, Denison tradition. He has emphasised the usefulness of the comparative dimension in such analyses in the Gilbert and Kravis tradition, and by training and inclination attach importance to tracing the relevant historical dimensions.
In addition to the more readily measurable technocratic supply-side influences, Maddison has tried to analyse the impact of national policy and degree of international co-operation or conflict on demand and resource allocation. Foreign developing countries, he has also tried to analyse the interaction of indigenous institutions, social structure and colonialism in explaining economic backwardness.