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A Comparative History of Commerce and Industry, Volume I : Four Paths to an Industrialized World
McNabb, David E. - 2016
A Comparative History of Commerce and Industry, Volume I offers a subjective review of how the cultural, social and economic institutions of commerce and industry evolved in industrialized nations to produce the institution we now know as business enterprise
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Trade and Technology Networks in the Chinese Textile Industry : Opening Up Before the Reform
Broggi, Carles Brasó - 2016
migrated. These networks were thus reestablished in Hong Kong, where they contributed to the city's industrialization in the … migrated. These networks were thus reestablished in Hong Kong, where they contributed to the city's industrialization in the …
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Institutionalising Patents in Nineteenth-Century Spain
Pretel, David - 2018
This book examines the development of the Spanish patent system in the years 1826 to 1902, providing a fundamental reassessment of its evolution in an international context. The Spanish case is particularly interesting because of this country’s location on the so-called European periphery and...
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How Nations Succeed: Manufacturing, Trade, Industrial Policy, and Economic Development
Yülek, Murat Â. - 2018
degli Studi di Parma, Italy “Brilliant, incisive analysis of industrialization; significantly improves the understanding of … industrialization and economic development; a must read for Governments, policy makers, investors, development professionals, and … and policy of industrialization; offers important insights on how countries can avoid the middle-income trap.” -Travis …
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The Story of Indian Manufacturing : Encounters with the Mughal and British Empires (1498 -1947)
Seth, Vijay K. - 2018
This book discusses the role historical events played in determining the pattern of growth of Indian manufacturing. Two important historical events significantly influenced the course of Indian manufacturing from the 15th century AD. The first was the arrival of European merchants via sea route...
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The Singularity of Western Innovation : The Language Nexus
Dudley, Leonard - 2017
This book highlights the contribution of language standardization to the economic rise of the West between 1600 and 1860. Previous studies have been unable to explain why during this period almost all industrial innovation was confined to small areas around the main cultural centers of three...
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Economic History of Energy and Environment
Sugiyama, S. (ed.) - 2015
This book is the first volume of a monograph series published by the Socio-Economic History Society, Japan. The purpose of the series is to make works by Japanese scholars accessible to a wider readership and to increase the knowledge of scholars in this field, particularly in relation to Asia....
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A Comparative History of Commerce and Industry, Volume II : Converging Trends and the Future of the Global Market
McNabb, David E. - 2016
A Comparative History of Commerce and Industry, Volume II offers a subjective review of how the cultural, social and economic institutions of commerce and industry evolved in industrialized nations to produce the institution we now know as business enterprise.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014277647
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Evolution of Italian Enterprises in the 20th Century
Giannetti, Renato (contributor);  … - 2006
During the first two-thirds of the 20th century the themes of sectorial structure and compared performance prevail in Italian economic historiography. In contrast, in the last part of the century attention is focused on the behavior of single economic actors and their micro-economic strategies....
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Technology and Human Capital in Historical Perspective
Ljungberg, Jonas (ed.); Smits, Jan Pieter Herman (ed.) - 2005
One theme of this volume is whether the complementarity between technology and human capital is a recent phenomenon, or whether it can be traced through history. Different approaches to human capital as well as technology are applied, and besides historical surveys are total factor productivity...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012054128