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The Match King, Chapter 9 : The Author's Cut
Partnoy, Frank - 2010
Scandals. That chapter - entitled “Weekend in Germany” - is the climax of the story, and it acts as the fulcrum of a new …
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The Myth of the Early Aviation Patent Hold-Up – How a U.S. Government Monopsony Commandeered Pioneer Airplane Patents
Katznelson, Ron D.; Howells, John - 2018
The prevailing historical accounts of the formation of the US aircraft “patent pool” in 1917 assume the US government necessarily intervened to alleviate a patent hold-up among private aircraft manufacturers. We show these accounts to be inconsistent with the historical facts. We show that...
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The heterogeneity of the machine tool industry in Brazil
Guerrero, Glaison Augusto; Fonseca, Pedro Cezar Dutra; … - In: Economia : revista da ANPEC 18 (2017) 2, pp. 260-274
The current paper aimed to investigate the reasons for the technological and competitive heterogeneity in the machine tool industry in Brazil. By analyzing the trajectory of the sector, we can highlight three main reasons for such heterogeneity. First, due to the competitive framework that...
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The Politics of Mass Production : Government Promotion of Standardization During the First World War
Asner, Glen - 2018
To what extent did government policies during World War I encourage American manufacturers to adopt mass production techniques? Historical studies have illuminated the military origins of many of the technologies underlying mass production and the social and economic circumstances that have...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014033250
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What Is Made in America?
Nicholson, Jessica - 2015
Accurately determining how much of our economy's total production is American-made can be a daunting task. However, data from the Commerce Department's U.S. Census Bureau and the Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) can help shed light on the dollar value of what America produces, and what...
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Ukraine : Post-War Economic & Workforce Development
Hatch, Phil - 2022
As of June 2022, the cost to rebuild Ukraine’s infrastructure destroyed by Russia likely exceeds $1 trillion. With forecasted high poverty rates, social services will likely cost an additional $1 trillion until Ukraine can financially self-sustain. Lastly, the cost to recapitalize and make...
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Escaping the Holocaust: Human and health capital of refugees to the United States, 1940-42
Blum, Matthias; Rei, Claudia - 2015
The large-scale persecution of Jews during World War II generated massive refugee movements. Using data from 20,441 predominantly Jewish passengers from 19 countries traveling from Lisbon to New York between 1940 and 1942, we analyze the last wave of refugees escaping the Holocaust and verify...
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Escaping the Holocaust : human and health capital of refugees to the United States, 1940-42
Blum, Matthias; Rei, Claudia - 2015
The large-scale persecution of Jews during World War II generated massive refugee movements. Using data from 20,441 predominantly Jewish passengers from 19 countries traveling from Lisbon to New York between 1940 and 1942, we analyze the last wave of refugees escaping the Holocaust and verify...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011391560
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The American Policy Towards the Early Stages German Reindustrialization, 1945-1947
Rohde, Chris - 2014
industrial industry, which now was at the mercy of the victorious Allies. The reindustrialization of Germany would be … stages of the reindustrialization of Germany that occurred prior to the implementation of the European Recovery Act, or ….The second stage began with a dramatic shift in the American policy towards Germany. As the old Alliance between the USSR and the …
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A Tale of Two Federalisms : Long-Term Institutional Change in the United States and in Germany
Schnellenbach, Jan; Döring, Thomas - 2010
This paper offers a comparison of government centralization in the United States and in Germany. After briefly laying …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014189511