Jan Luiten van Zanden, Reinoud Bosch, Jerry de Vries, and Vyacheslav Tykhonov

The Clio Infra Project

A Research Infrastructure for the Study of Global Economic Growth and Inequality (c. 1500-)

Research question:

Why are some countries rich and others poor?

Traditions drawn on to answer this question- New Institutional Economics

- Douglass North, Avner Greif- New Economic Geography

- Paul Krugman- Unified Growth Theory

- Oded Galor- Global Economic History

- Kenneth Pomeranz

Literature

Engerman, S.L. & K.L. Sokoloff (2002). Factor endowments, inequality, and

paths of development among new world economics, NBER Working Paper

Series, 9259.

Findlay, R, & O’Rourke, K. (2007). Power and Plenty: Trade, War, and the

World Economy in the Second Millennium. Princeton: Princeton University

Press.

Galor, O. (2005). From stagnation to growth: unified growth theory, in: P.

Aghion & S. Durlauf, Handbook of Economic Growth, Vol. 1A, pp. 171-

293, Amsterdam: Elsevier.

Greif, A. (2006). Institutions and the Path to the Modern Economy.

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Krugman, P. (1997). Development, geography and economic theory.

Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

North, D.C. (1981). Structure and Change in Economic History. New York:

W.W. Norton and Co.

Pomeranz, K. (2000). The Great Divergence: China, Europe and the Making

of the Modern World Economy. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.

Reinhart,C. & Rogoff, K. (2009). This Time is Different: Eight Centuries of

Financial Folly. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.

Sen, A. (1999). Development as Freedom. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Smith, A. (1776). An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of

Nations

Variables in this literature

• Institutions (Engerman & Sokoloff, North, Pomeranz)

• Geography (Findlay & O’Rourke, Krugman)

• Ethics (Sen)

• Psychology, interaction (Greif)

• Factor endowments, power, policies (Engerman &

Sokoloff, Findlay & O’Rourke, Pomeranz)

• Trade (Findlay & O’Rourke)

• Technology (Galor, Pomeranz)

• Education (Galor)

• Population (Galor)

• Culture (Pomeranz)

• Finance (Pomeranz, Reinhart & Rogoff)

Global Datasets on Variables

• Wages and prices

• Labour relations

• Demography

• Finance

• Inequality

• Quality of life

• Institutions

• Geography and environment

• Sustainability

• Human capital formation

• Biological standards of living

• National accounts

Projectstructure

Collaboratories Management structure Archiving

IISH

- wages and prices

- labour relations

- demography

- finance

Utrecht University

- inequality

- quality of life

- institutions

- geography and

environment

- sustainability

- human capital formation

University of Groningen

- national accounts

Stakeholder committee

- executive committee of

IEHA

Steering committee

- decision-making body

University of Tübingen

- biological standards of

living

Visualization

- Statplanet

- Gapminder

Management team

- daily operations

IISH

- clio infra system

DARIAH

DANS

- archiving of

data

The clio infra system

clio infra

website

Application Logic

Edit

Upload

Retrieve

API

Ingest

API

Download

Users

Visualize

Private

Public

Link to

upload

Link to

edit

Link to

download

Link to

visualize

Storage

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http://alpha.dev.clio-infra.eu/clioinfra/index.html

Input / output standards clio infra

• Excelfile

• Working paper

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Content of working paper

1. Title

2. Author(s)

3. Production date

4. Version

5. Variable group(s)

6. Variable(s)

7. Unit of analysis

8. Keywords (5)

9. Abstract (200 words)

10. Time period

11. Geographical coverage

12. Methodologies used for data collection and processing

13. Data quality (multiple possibilities)

14. Period of collection

15. Data collectors

16. Sources

17. Text

Topic for discussion

How does it all hang together?

- Social theory

- Conceptualization

- Qualitative insights

- Socio-Economics?

Variables in this project

• Institutions• Geography• Ethics• Psychology, interaction• Factor endowments, power, policies• Technology• Culture• Finance• Wages and prices• Labour relations• Demography• Inequality• Quality of life• Environment• Sustainability• Human capital formation• Biological standard of living• National accounts

Thank you