The reasons why inventions that shaped industrial revolutions, occurred in the UK and in the USA, have been suggested by economic historians. For the first time,we access the determinants of more than a hundred inventions around the world, explaining why they occurred in a given country and why...

We use a set of established growth models, which simultaneously include human capital and R&D, to show that the effect of mortality rate in human capital accumulation is quantitatively more important than the effect of perfectly guaranteed patents on research. First, we show that the effect of...

elevision programming has become such a significant part of Hollywood operations that Allen J. Scott has dubbed television production and distribution the `other Hollywood'. However, it is also a sector that, over the 1900s, became subject to forces of decentralization as producers looked to...