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| Genre/Form: | Aufsatzsammlung History Congresses (form) |
|---|---|
| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Favorites of fortune. Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1991 (OCoLC)654716724 |
| Material Type: | Internet resource |
| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Patrice L R Higonnet; David S Landes; Henry Rosovsky |
| ISBN: | 067429520X 9780674295209 0674295218 9780674295216 |
| OCLC Number: | 23583924 |
| Description: | viii, 558 pages ; 25 cm |
| Contents: | Introduction : on technology and growth / David S. Landes -- The conquest of high mortality and hunger in Europe and America : timing and mechanisms / Robert W. Fogel -- The hero and the herd in technological history : reflections on Thomas Edison and the battle of the systems / Paul A. David -- The "docile" body as an economic-industrial growth factor / Rudolf Braun -- The choice of technique : entrepreneurial decisions in the nineteenth-century European cotton and steel industries / Wolfram Fischer -- The city and technological innovation / Paul Bairoch -- Dear labor, cheap labor, and the industrial revolution / Joel Mokyr -- Entrepreneurship, total factor productivity, and economic efficiency : Landes, Solow, and Farrell thirty years later / Robert C. Allen -- The Huguenots and the English financial revolution / François Crouzet. What happened to the theory of economic development? / William Lazonick -- Public sector entrepreneurship / Jonathan Hughes -- Employment strategies and production structures in the Swiss watchmaking industry / François Jequier -- Entrepreneurs and managers / Peter Temin -- Did England's cities grow too fast during the Industrial Revolution? / Jeffrey G. Williamson -- Technology and the economic theorist : past, present, and future / W.W. Rostow -- Creating competitive capability : innovation and investment in the United States, Great Britain, and Germany from the 1870s to World War I / Alfred D. Chandler, Jr. -- Benefits and costs of late development / Anne O. Krueger -- Prometheus unbound and developing countries / Irma Adelman -- Marriage bars : discrimination against married women workers from the 1920s to the 1950s / Claudia Goldin. |
| Responsibility: | edited by Patrice Higonnet, David S. Landes, Henry Rosovsky. |
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A most important book... It contains a conspectus of the variety of work that goes into our studies nowadays: biometrics and cliometrics; theory and a review of theory; broad sweeps of generalizations, detailed research on a micro scale, and international comparison; some sociology; and some institutional politics...A rich offering. -- Sidney Pollard "Journal of Economic History" A stimulating and fascinating volume that should be in the library of anyone interested in economic history or technology.--John Vincent Nye "Journal of Evolutionary Economics " A most important book...[It] contains a conspectus of the variety of work that goes into our studies nowadays: biometrics and cliometrics; theory and a review of theory; broad sweeps of generalizations, detailed research on a micro scale, and international comparison; some sociology; and some institutional politics...A rich offering.--Sidney Pollard "Journal of Economic History " Read more...
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