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[...]The loss of manufacturing jobs has created a widespreadsense that manufacturing in New York City has nofuture, that the decline is unstoppable and “largely inevitableand foreordained” (Fitch 1993, p. 107). Even theoptimistic report of the Commission on the Year 2000,New York Ascendant,...
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constituted the first technology that industrialized a labour-intensive service. Measuring output in time spent consuming them …
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This paper examines the effect of a new technology on a labour-intensive service. Comparing primal and dual TFP …
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period is considered. The ‘role of the state’ theory performs better until 1970 whereas after the Golden Age, technology and …
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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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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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This paper re-examines theories previously advanced to explain Lancashire’s slowadoption of ring spinning. New cost estimates show that although additionaltransport costs and technical complementarities between certain types of machinereduced ring adoption rates, these supply side constraints...
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relativelyexpensive technology, but also fostering cooperative behaviour andimproving individual bargaining power through the formation of …
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and technology, science and technology became increasingly incomprehensible to all but a few specialists. Maintaining a … policies relevant to science and technology. But could popularisations really supply sufficient information to validate those …
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The role of technology in the transition from premodern to modern economies in late eighteenth- and nineteenth …
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