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The Media is the Measure: Technical change and employment, 1909-49

Alexopoulos, Michelle; Cohen, Jon - University of Toronto, Department of Economics - 2009

least in part, to the shortcomings associated with traditional measures of the former. In this paper, we use new indicators …

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Volumes of Evidence - Examining Technical Change Last Century Through a New Lens

Alexopoulos, Michelle; Cohen, Jon - University of Toronto, Department of Economics - 2010

reasons, flawed. We discuss in this paper new indicators based on data drawn from the MARC records of the Library of Congress …

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Measuring Our Ignorance, One Book at a Time: New Indicators of Technological Change, 1909-1949

Alexopoulos, Michelle; Cohen, Jon - University of Toronto, Department of Economics - 2009

We present new indicators of U.S. technological change for the period 1909-49 based on information in the Library of Congress’ catalogue. We use these indicators to estimate the connections between technological change and economic activity, and to investigate the relationship between...

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