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Understanding Creativity
Galenson, David W. - 2010
. Yet creativity - a primary source of the technological change that drives economic growth - is largely the domain of … has several central components. A key element is the systematic measurement of an artist's creativity over the course of … identification of his greatest innovation. This facilitates another key element of the research, the categorization of the artist as …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013143128
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Measuring Technological Innovation Over the Long Run
Kelly, Bryan T. - 2018
innovation. We identify significant patents based on textual similarity of a given patent to previous and subsequent work: these … aggregate, sectoral, and firm level. Our technology indices span two centuries (1840-2010) and cover innovation by private and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012907760
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Democracy, Technology, and Growth
Aghion, Philippe - 2010
We explore the question of how political institutions and particularly democracy affect economic growth. Although empirical evidence of a positive effect of democracy on economic performance in the aggregate is weak, we provide evidence that democracy influences productivity growth in different...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012760042
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Macroeconomic Convergence : International Transmission of Growth and Technical Progress
Helliwell, John F. - 2009
This paper uses data for nineteen industrial countries over the period 1960-1985 to examine the evidence for international convergence of technical progress. Several models of convergence, including a model in which convergence is affected by changes in a country's openness to trade, are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012767097
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Trade, Technology, and the Great Divergence
O'Rourke, Kevin - 2019
Why did per capita income divergence occur so dramatically during the 19th century, rather than at the outset of the Industrial Revolution? How were some countries able to reverse this trend during the globalization of the late 20th century? To answer these questions, this paper develops a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012872313
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Technology in the Great Divergence
Clark, Gregory; Feenstra, Robert C. - 2021
things: (1) that incomes per capita diverged more around the world after 1800 than before; (2) that the source of this …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013221862
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Population Growth, Technological Adoption and Economic Outcomes : A Theory of Cross-Country Differences for the Information Era
Beaudry, Paul; Green, David A. - 2021
The object of this paper is to show how population growth, through its interaction with recent technological and organizational developments, can account for many of the cross-country differences in economic outcome observed among industrialized countries over the last 20 years. In particular,...
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Economic Growth and the Demographic Transition
Bloom, David E.; Canning, David; Sevilla, Jaypee - 2021
examines the relationship between population change and economic development in particular regions of the world: East Asia … of the developing world …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013236999
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Technological Diffusion, Conditional Convergence, and Economic Growth
Bloom, David E.; Canning, David; Sevilla, Jaypee - 2021
Technological diffusion implies a form of 'conditional convergence' as lagging countries catch up with technological leaders. We find strong evidence of technological diffusion but not full convergence; differences in total factor productivity (TFP) persist even in the long run due to differences...
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The Great Escape : A Review Essay on Fogel'S 'The Escape from Hunger and Premature Death, 1700-2100'
Deaton, Angus - 2021
In this essay, I review Robert Fogel's The Escape from Hunger and Premature Death, 1700-2100 which is concerned with the past, present, and future of human health. Fogel's work places great emphasis on nutrition, not only for the history of health, but for explaining aspects of current health,...
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