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1nnii
Could anyone recommend economic, historical, or anthropological books on the standard of living over time? I'm interested in how much wealth people have had in different societies and times.
2AsYouKnow_Bob
I'm not sure what level you're aiming for, but Carlo M.Cipolla's The economic history of world population is one place to start.
4AsYouKnow_Bob
Economist Brad De Long -- who - not entirely coincidentally - is also at Berkeley (as was Cipolla) -- has given some thought to this question.
(If this url doesn't break anything...), below is an html link to the Google cache of a .doc file of De Long's paper called "Estimates of World GDP, from 1 million BC - Present".
The short answer De Long gives is that "per capita GDP per human" was roughly $200 right up until the Middle Ages ($115 in constant 1990 dollars) - mostly as 1500-2000 calories of food per person per day.
http://72.14.209.104/custom?q=cache:Q0DIwRZvmhkJ:
www.j-bradford-delong.net/TCEH/1998_Draft/World_GDP/
Estimating_World_GDP.doc+human+population+kremer+
estimate&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=3&gl=us&client=pub-0234211684057465
(If this url doesn't break anything...), below is an html link to the Google cache of a .doc file of De Long's paper called "Estimates of World GDP, from 1 million BC - Present".
The short answer De Long gives is that "per capita GDP per human" was roughly $200 right up until the Middle Ages ($115 in constant 1990 dollars) - mostly as 1500-2000 calories of food per person per day.
http://72.14.209.104/custom?q=cache:Q0DIwRZvmhkJ:
www.j-bradford-delong.net/TCEH/1998_Draft/World_GDP/
Estimating_World_GDP.doc+human+population+kremer+
estimate&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=3&gl=us&client=pub-0234211684057465
