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An Historical Analysis of the Expansion Of Compulsory Schooling in Europe After the Second World War

Viarengo, Martina - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2007

period is considered. The ‘role of the state’ theory performs better until 1970 whereas after the Golden Age, technology and …

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Steam as a General Purpose Technology: A Growth Accounting Perspective

Crafts, Nicholas F. R. - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2003

GPT can be defined as "a technology that initially has much scope for improvement and evntually comes to be widely used …). Subsequently, as the scope of the technology is finally exhausted, its impact on growth will fade away. If, at that point, a new …

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Can profitable arbitrage opportunities in the raw cotton market explainBritain’s continued preference for mule spinning?

Leunig, Timothy - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2002

In an influential article Saxonhouse and Wright argued that the quality of local cottonwas the single most important factor in explaining national preferences for ring ormule spinning. For Britain, they argue that mills using more flexible mule spindlescould exploit arbitrage opportunities...

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Social Savings as a Measure of The Contribution of a New Technology to Economic Growth

Crafts, Nicholas F. R. - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2004

The usual way to evaluate the implications of new technology for economic growth is through growth accounting … technology (ICT) and the results have dominated thinking on the post-1995 growth resurgence in the United States (Oliner and …

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