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Productivity Growth and the Regional Dynamics of Antebellum Southern Development

Olmstead, Alan L. - 2010

Between 1800 and 1860, the United States became the preeminent world supplier of cotton as output increased sixty …-fold. Technological changes, including the introduction of improved cotton varieties, contributed significantly to this growth. Measured … output per worker in the cotton sector rose four-fold and large regional differences emerged. By 1840, output per worker in …

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Technology Adoption and Productivity Growth : Evidence from Industrialization in France

Juhász, Réka; Squicciarini, Mara P.; Voigtländer, Nico - 2022

adopted – take time to be reflected in aggregate productivity statistics. Before mechanization, cotton spinning was performed … plant productivity distribution of new technology adopters in mechanized cotton spinning. We find that this distribution was … technological change: The diffusion of mechanized cotton spinning during the Industrial Revolution in France. We document new …

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Learning-by-Producing and the Geographic Links between Invention and Production : Experience from the Second Industrial Revolution

Sutthiphisal, Dhanoos - 2010

both emerging (electrical equipment and supplies) and maturing (shoes and textiles) industries, the geographic association …

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Trade Wars, Technology and Productivity

Cheng, Wan-jung; Peng, Shin Kun; Riezman, Raymond Glenn; … - 2022

productivity in the South and aggregate technology used by the South both turn out to be higher …

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Risk preventative innovation strategies for emerging technologies the cases of nano-textiles and smart textiles

Köhler, Andreas R.; Som, Claudia - In: Technovation : the international journal of … 34 (2014) 8, pp. 420-430

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Patent Pools and the Direction of Innovation - Evidence from the 19th-Century Sewing Machine Industry

Lampe, Ryan - 2014

Patent pools allow a group of firms to combine their patents as if they were a single firm. Theoretical models predict that pools encourage innovation in pool technologies, albeit at the cost of innovation in substitutes. Empirical evidence is scarce because modern pools are too recent to allow...

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The Rate and Direction of Invention in the British Industrial Revolution : Incentives and Institutions

Meisenzahl, Ralf - 2014

Enlightenment culture. Finally, patterns differ for the textile sector; therefore, any inferences from textiles about the whole …

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Five Facts You Need to Know About Technology Diffusion

Comin, Diego; Hobijn, Bart; Rovito, Emilie - 2021

This paper presents a new data set on the diffusion of about 115 technologies in over 150 countries over the last 200 years. We use this comprehensive data set to uncover general patterns of technology diffusion. Our main 5 findings are as follows: (i) Once the intensive margin is measured,...

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Russia and the Soviet Union then and Now

Fischer, Stanley - 2021

The main focus of this paper is on the process and progress of economic reform in Russia. But I start with four historical questions that bear on the current situation. How advanced was Russia in 1913? What relevance, if any, does the New Economic Policy of the 19205, or NEP, have for the...

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A Conceptual Framework for Understanding Critical Transitions

Alston, Lee J. - 2016

Critical transitions for a country are historical periods when the powerful organizations in a country shift from one set of beliefs about how institutions (the formal and informal rules of the game) will affect outcomes to a new set of beliefs. Critical transitions can lead a country toward...

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