Tag: burma

• August 28, 2020

  Gratuitous chart #2: market integration in Lower Burma, and some quick thoughts on GDP reconstructions

  Via a rather circuitous route, I’ve become extremely interested in domestic market integration: basically, I was thinking about the way we measure agricultural output in the past. Often, it’s a version of what we might call the “Malanima shortcut”; though he wasn’t the first to use the idea of a demand function to estimate agricultural…