Paul A. David, Neil Sr. David

Technical Choice Innovation and Economic Growth

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book deals with technological innovations of the nineteenth century.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 348
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. März 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 565g
• ISBN-13: 9780521098755
• ISBN-10: 0521098750
• Artikelnr.: 22858832

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
Introduction: technology, history and growth
Part I. Concepts and Preconceptions: 1. Labor scarcity and the problem of technological practice and progress in nineteenth-century America
Part II. Generation: 2. Learning by doing and tariff protection: a reconsideration of the case of the ante-bellum United States cotton textile industry
Addendum: estimated rates of labor equality change
3. The 'Horndal effect' in Lowell, 1834-56: a short-run learning curve for integrated cotton textile mills
Part III. Diffusion: 4. The mechanization of reaping in the ante-bellum Midwest
Addendum: threshold farm size
5. The landscape and the machine: technical interrelatedness, land tenure and the mechanization of the corn harvest in Victorian Britain
Appendix A: technical notes
Appendix B: source of the parameters and variables
Part IV. Ramifications: 6. Transport innovations and economic growth: Professor Fogel on and off the rails
References
Index.