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This is common knowledge. Google the numbers. I actually tried to include a graphic that I saw once but I was not able to track it down anymore. I was basically
by tiatia 11y ago
This is common knowledge. Google the numbers. I actually tried to include a graphic that I saw once but I was not able to track it down anymore. I was basically a world map with a ball/point that showed movement of world GDP. This ball was far on the east before the industrial revolution since much more people lived in Asia than in Europe and they also had more efficient agriculture. With America becoming populated mainly by European and with the industrial revolution the percent of GDP product by the Western world shifted to the west. At one point this trend decelerated, then stopped, then reversed and then accelerated (towards the east). This should not come as a surprise.
Actually, the picture was similar (but better designed) to this one:
https://dannyquah.wordpress.com/2012/05/17/how-we-miss-the-great-shift-east/ https://dannyquah.wordpress.com/2012/05/17/how-we-miss-the-g...
- dquah 11y agoI don't think that graphic you're thinking of shows "world GDP" so much as "the centre of gravity of GDP across the planet": These are two quite different things. In any case, you might have in mind a map by McKinsey Global Institute in their "Urban World" 2012 report. I'd disagree that that depiction was better designed than http://www.dannyquah.com/Quilled/Output/2010.09.27-Danny.Quah-WECG-LSE-Research-Map.png http://www.dannyquah.com/Quilled/Output/2010.09.27-Danny.Qua... or the animation http://www.dannyquah.com/Quilled/Output/2010.08-Danny.Quah-wm-cg-gdpp-extrap-animated.gif http://www.dannyquah.com/Quilled/Output/2010.08-Danny.Quah-w... It depends on what you're trying to understand. For what you describe, I personally don't like so much the McKinsey graphic. This is discussed in Section 8.3 (in Chapter 8) of my draft manuscript http://bit.ly/1KeSicU http://bit.ly/1KeSicU on Ordering the World.
- tiatia 11y agoAh, you are the maker of the graphic. Well, I vaguely remember the graphic I saw. But as a feedback - What are the two extremes? I don't know the end points in your graphic. - You graphic does not show how the center shifted from the East to the west after the industrial revolution. Because from 1500 to 2010 you actually have either hard data or past estimates. - I would have put the distance of the dots (years) and a color legend in the picture. - I am to stupid to understand what the different sized arrows mean in the graphic. What information do they provide?
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