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The Wealth and Poverty of African States Published online by Cambridge University Press: 06 January 2022
The new African economic history used econometric methods and quantitative data to make big claims about the causes of Africa’s current relative poverty vis-à-vis the rest of the world, especially the wealthy countries in the West. At first historians did not respond to these claims, as Hopkins (2009) pointed out, while African economic historians tended to warn about the “compression of history” (Austin, 2009). This book has sought to summarize some of my own research and that of many other economic historians whose research has contributed to a decompression of history by providing long-term historical time series on some of the central metrics of economic development: wages, poverty, living standards, taxation, and economic growth.
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