Monthly Archives: June 2011
Ten resources for studying globalization
Following on from last week’s post on the top ten sites for studying the historical geography of Ireland, here is the top ten online resources (not necessarily in any order) for studying the geography of globalization. 1. UNCTAD (the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development) have a pretty decent data bank and library located here. An […]
Top Ten Sites for the Historical Geography of Ireland
1. The Angus Maddison statistics on global economic history: http://www.ggdc.net/MADDISON/oriindex.htm Throughout his long career Angus Maddison worked collaboratively to develop reliable statistics on the development of the world economy. You can download a marvellous spreadsheet with LOADS of data from this webpage – http://www.ggdc.net/MADDISON/Historical_Statistics/horizontal-file_02-2010.xls From that data I produced the graph below showing the share […]
Eye on the World 