Quote:Those are alternate leadership cycle dates. After I concluded who were I went back to the old discussion with which you are familiar.
I'd be happy to rehash that debate if you like (I just ordered Leading Sectors and World Powers on Amazon today), but I seem to remember that we just agreed to disagree, or at least wait until we were a little further along the process to recap (I don't think we are far enough along yet).
Quote:GDP is real GDP US dollars.
So, if this is PPP on an absolute (rather than per capita) basis, I don't think what you are asserting is actually a rule. China actually had the world largest GDP well into the 19th century, and has regained that position again in the last few years. Did Britain have an equivalent lead time the first time around, when it overtook the Netherlands? How about the Netherlands versus Portugal the time before that? Britain might have beaten out Louis XIV with its financial innovations and political maneuvering, but was it really a larger economy?
Quote:Now, where is this strong growth you insist is happened that I cannot see?
Now you're just putting words in my mouth. You responded to 4, go back and look at points 1-3 at the end of the last page. I already pointed out that the growth rate for the 19th k-wave was under no obligation to be as large as that of the one before it. I simply pointed out that it is indisputably behaving as a k-wave as defined by Thompson & Modelski.