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发帖数: 6973 | 1 【 以下文字转载自 Literature 讨论区 】
发信人: choi (choi), 信区: Literature
标 题: Obituary: Angus Maddison
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Sat May 1 14:52:35 2010, 美东)
Maddison counting; A long, passionate affair with numbers has finally come
to an end. Economist, Apr. 29, 2010.
http://www.economist.com/business-finance/economics-focus/displaystory.cfm?story_id=16004937
Note:
(1) "Maddison is a variant spelling of the surname Madison.
Mr. Maddison (1926-2010) was British. He attended graduate schools at McGill
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发帖数: 6973 | 2 My comment:
(1) I look at China with cold eyes, without passion. The more I delve into
it, the more I am convinced that it was a great nation, up to mid-eighteenth
century. Contrary to most Chinese, I thought Chinese, not the foreign
powers, were the culprit of China's decline. Fundamentally, my thesis is
Chinese bungled--even shot themselves in the foot.
(2) Mr. Angus Maddison authored two books about China; the first was earth-
quaking.
(a) Chinese Economic Performance in the Long-Run. Paris: |
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