Angus Maddison was a British economist and a world scholar on quantitative macroeconomic history, including the measurement and analysis of economic growth and development. He was Emeritus Professor at the Faculty of Economics at the University of Groningen . Born in Newcastle-on-Tyne, England, Maddison was schooled at Darlington Grammar School and attended the University of Cambridge as an undergraduate. After attending McGill University and Johns Hopkins University as a graduate student, he decided not to pursue a Ph.D. and returned to the United Kingdom to teach for a year at the... University of St. Andrews. He subsequently got his doctorate. In 1953, Maddison joined the Organisation for European Economic Cooperation , and afterwards became Head of the OEEC Economics Division. In 1963, when the OEEC became the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, Maddison became Assistant Director of the Economic Development Department. In 1966-71 he took leave of absence and spent the next 15 years in a series of consulting appointments during which he returned to the OECD for four years.
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