Economic historians have recently made much progress in reconstructing historical national accounts and quantifying other economic variables for the last millennium. This work has implications for the stylised facts that growth economists seek to explain in their analysis. At the same time, it...

This workshop will focus on issues of both measurement and explanation, building on a number of themes where research is currently active, including (but not limited to): - Extending historical national accounts further back in time for the Nordic countries - Providing historical national...