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Titre |
L'essor et le déclin de l'Occident : une perspective géographique |
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Auteur |
Jean-Marie Grether, Claude Lutzelschwab, Nicole A. Mathys |
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Revue |
Revue d'économie du développement |
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Numéro |
volume 26, no 2, juin 2012 Questions mondiales |
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Page |
31-56 |
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Résumé anglais |
This paper proposes a new representation of the worldwide distribution of human population and economic activity over two millennia. Combining the Maddison and the G-Econ databases, it tracks the evolution of the world's demographic and economic centers of gravity during the 12010 period. The distributional and temporal patterns that emerge are clear and contrasted, with a stable East-Asian predominance during the first eighteen centuries, followed by a boomerang-like westward shift during the last two centuries. New turning points are identified, suggesting that the reversal of the Western shift occurred as early as the 1920s in demographic terms and in the 1950s in economic ones. |
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Article en ligne |
http://www.cairn.info/article.php?ID_ARTICLE=EDD_262_0031 |
