Stephen Broadberry is Professor of Economic History at the University of Warwick and a co-ordinator of the Economic History Initiative at the Centre for Economic and Policy Research. His recent publications include The Economics of World War I (2005, as co-editor) and Market Services and the Productivity Race, 1850-2000: Britain in International Perspective (2006).

Introduction; Part I. Before the First World War: 1. Globalization, 1870-1914 Guillaume Daudin, Matthias Morys and Kevin H. O'Rourke; 2. Aggregate growth, 1870-1914: growing at the production frontier Albert Carreras and Camilla Josephson; 3. Sectoral developments, 1870-1914 Stephen Broadberry, Giovanni Federico and Alexander Klein; 4. Business cycles, 1870-1914 Marc Flandreau, Juan Flores, Clemens Jobst and David Khoudour-Casteras; 5. Population and living standards, 1870-1914 Carol Leonard and Jonas Ljungberg; Part II. The World Wars and the Interwar Period: 6. War and disintegration, 1914-50 Jari Eloranta and Mark Harrison; 7. Business cycles and economic policy, 1914-45 Albrecht Ritschl and Tobias Straumann; 8. Aggregate growth, 1913-50 Joan R. Roses and Nikolaus Wolf; 9. Sectoral developments, 1914-45 Erik Buyst and Piotr Franaszek; 10. Population and living standards, 1914-45 Robert Millward and Joerg Baten; Part III. From the Second World War to the Present: 11. The economic impact of European integration Barry Eichengreen and Andrea Boltho; 12. Aggregate growth, 1950-2005 Nicholas Crafts and Gianni Toniolo; 13. Sectoral developments, 1945-2000 Stefan Houpt, Pedro Lains and Lennart Schön; 14. Business cycles and economic policy, 1945-2007 Stefano Battilossi, James Foreman-Peck and Gerhard Kling; 15. Population and living standards, 1945-2005 Dudley Baines, Neil Cummins and Max-Stephan Schulze.