1. Figure 1.1 Angus Maddison (1926 - 2010)
* The portrait was painted by Carla Rodenburg in I am grateful to Angus Maddison for his permission to use this painting.
 Angus Maddison

2. Figure 1.2 Gross domestic and gross national product, 2008 ($ billion).
The dotted line is a 45º line, the axes use a logarithmic scale, and the circles are proportional to the size of GNI.

3. Figure 1.3 Gross domestic product, 2008; top 15, ranked according to ppp

4. Figure 1.4 Exports and imports of goods and services, 2008 ($ billion)
The dotted line is a 45º line, the axes use a logarithmic scale, and the circles are proportional to the size of exports.

5. Figure 1.5 Relative exports of goods and services, 2008 (% of GDP)

6. Figure 1.6 Taxes on international trade, 2008 (% of government revenue)

7. Figure 1.7 Development of world per capita income over the last 2000 years

8. Figure 1.8 Two waves of globalization in trade

9. Figure 1.9 Foreign capital stocks; assets / world GDP

10. Figure 1.10 Relative migration flows, Western Europe and Western Offshoots

11. Figure 1.11 Intra- and Inter-regional merchandise trade flows (% of world total)