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Technology and the great divergence: Global economic development since 1820

Allen, Robert C. - In: Explorations in Economic History 49 (2012) 1, pp. 1-16

The paper measures productivity growth in seventeen countries in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. GDP per worker and capital per worker in 1985 US dollars were estimated for 1820, 1850, 1880, 1913, and 1939 by using historical national accounts to back cast Penn World Table data for 1965...

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Technological change, economic growth, and income inequality : MSA evidence from the 1990s.

Lehman, Thomas Eric - 2004

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The Institutional Revelation: A comment on Douglas W. Allen’s <Emphasis Type="BoldItalic">The Institutional Revolution

Mokyr, Joel; Espín-Sánchez, José-Antonio - In: The Review of Austrian Economics 26 (2013) 4, pp. 375-381

Institutions are a central topic in economic history. Allen’s work differs in that he is interested in institutions per … se, not as a means to economic performance and prosperity. The purpose of this book is to explain the institutions of the … acts of the agent, hence the “strange” institutions. In a modern world, with a much improved monitoring technology, we can …

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The changing nature of wage inequality

Lemieux, Thomas - In: Journal of Population Economics 21 (2008) 1, pp. 21-48

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Private patent protection in the theory of Schumpeterian growth

Davis, Lewis S.; Şener, Fuat - In: European Economic Review 56 (2012) 7, pp. 1446-1460

We develop a Schumpeterian growth model with privately optimal intellectual property rights (IPRs) enforcement and investigate the implications for intellectual property and R&D policies. In our setting, successful innovators undertake costly rent protection activities (RPAs) to enforce their...

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Labor productivity and obsolete skills in a growth model with production by layers Abstract Purpose–The purpose of this paper is to study the growth dynamics in a model where labor...

Gomes, Orlando - In: Journal of Economic Studies 3 (2014), pp. 431-452

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Population, Technology, and Growth: From the Malthusian Regime to the Demographic Transition

Galor, Oded; Weil, David N. - Brown University, Department of Economics - 1998

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The Evolution of the Literature on Technological Change over time: A Survey

Conte, Andrea - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik, Max-Planck-Gesellschaft - 2006

This paper reviews the emergence and evolution of major topics in economics of innovation. Throughout the paper, particular attention is devoted to the analysis of the cumulative aspects and complementarities between di_erent paths of research over time. Moreover, this survey highlights the...

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Firm heterogeneity, R&D, and economic growth

Chun, Hyunbae; Ha, Joonkyung; Kim, Jung-Wook - In: Economic Modelling 36 (2014) C, pp. 149-156

In this paper, we establish a link between firm heterogeneity and long-run economic growth both theoretically and empirically. We show that firms' technological heterogeneity creates the diversification effect for R&D financiers, facilitating R&D investment, and thus leading to long-run economic...

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Climate reversals and the transition to agriculture

Dow, Gregory; Reed, Clyde; Olewiler, Nancy - In: Journal of Economic Growth 14 (2009) 1, pp. 27-53

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