Modeling the Human Trajectory (openphilanthropy.org)

> The human economy has grown super-exponentially. The bigger it has gotten, the faster it has doubled, on average. The global economy churned out $74 trillion in goods and services in 2019, twice as much as in 2000.

Let's ban ads already.

Angus Maddison's estimates of historical GDP are outdated now. I'd look at works like Broadberry's China, Europe and the Great Divergence: A Study in Historical National Accounting, 980-1850 [1].

[1]https://www.economics.ox.ac.uk/oxford-economic-and-social-hi...