Comin, Diego A.; Easterly, William; Gong, Erick - Harvard Business School, Harvard University - 2008
We assemble a dataset on technology adoption in 1000 BC, 0 AD, and 1500 AD for the predecessors to today's nation states. We find that this very old history of technology adoption is surprisingly significant for today's national development outcomes. Our strong and robust results are for 1500 AD...