Medieval Britons twice as rich -- source

[Paul Mobbs]

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
Hash: SHA256

On Monday 06 December 2010 19:38:27 Tony Gosling wrote:
> Maybe being a serf wasn't so bad after all!
> Medieval Britons were twice as rich as the poor in the Third World today

Actually, I just found the source paper and it's really interesting -- some 
interesting statistics about food production, especially if you have the 
population data to hand to correlate them with:
http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/economics/staff/academic/broadberry/wp/britishgdplongrun8a.pdf


P.

- - -- 

"We are not for names, nor men, nor titles of Government,
nor are we for this party nor against the other but we are
for justice and mercy and truth and peace and true freedom,
that these may be exalted in our nation, and that goodness,
righteousness, meekness, temperance, peace and unity with
God, and with one another, that these things may abound."
(Edward Burrough, 1659 - from 'Quaker Faith and Practice')

Paul's book, "Energy Beyond Oil", is out now!
For details see http://www.fraw.org.uk/ebo/

Read my message board, "Ecolonomics", at:
http://www.fraw.org.uk/mei/ecolonomics/

Paul Mobbs, Mobbs' Environmental Investigations
3 Grosvenor Road, Banbury OX16 5HN, England
tel./fax (+44/0)1295 261864
email - mobbsey at gn.apc.org
website - http://www.fraw.org.uk/mei/index.shtml
public key - http://www.fraw.org.uk/mei/mobbsey-2010.asc
- -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: GnuPG v2.0.13 (GNU/Linux)

iF4EAREIAAYFAkz9XvgACgkQ5Jsrc2qDL5HUnAD/U1n3R2qux2JrvJpwubOmFsIR
RRllzjMTdwDuFe0Ia/AA/i5G9ORjFmiWjL0kMuL4sPEl2pompRwitC8BBjgJGijb
=JhfY
- -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: GnuPG v2.0.13 (GNU/Linux)

iF4EAREIAAYFAkz9YTgACgkQ5Jsrc2qDL5GoewD+O9cDKDYita7g01RE3fwm2zlX
2177vGWGc+D2/QMsr68A/3htqurGt72y9idmJQOR99SNk1J9nxO4tPTxnivE/rsy
=JiDR
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----