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Institutional and technological change in Japan's economy: Past and present
Hunter, Janet (contributor); Storz, Cornelia (contributor) - 2006
policy level, arguments rage about how Japan and the Japanese economy should plan for the future. In this book, leading … economists and economic historians of Japan examine a range of key issues concerning institutional and technological change in … Japan, rigorously using discipline-based tools of analysis, and drawing important conclusions as to how the process of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012990567
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Handbook of ancient Afro-Eurasian economies. Volume 1: Contexts
von Reden, Sitta (contributor) - 2020
The notion of the 'Silk Road' that the German geographer Ferdinand von Richthofen invented in the 19th century has lost attraction to scholars in light of large amounts of new evidence and new approaches. The handbook suggests new conceptual and methodological tools for researching ancient...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014280314
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The five-phases of economic development and institutional evolution in China and Japan
Aoki, Masahiko - 2011
five phases of economic development that are common to China, Japan, and Korea: M (Malthusian), G (government-led), K (à la … explores the agrarian origins of institutions in Qing China and Tokugawa Japan (and briefly Choson Korea) and their path … institutional evolution between China and Japan, which also clarifies the simplicity of prevailing arguments that identify East …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010397266
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Public Goods Provision in the Early Modern Economy: Comparative Perspectives from Japan, China, and Europe
Tanimoto, Masayuki (contributor); Wong, Roy Bin (contributor) - 2019
Scholarly discussions on economic development in history, specifically those linked to industrialization or modern economic growth, have paid great attention to the formation and development of the market economy as a set of institutions able to augment people's welfare. The role of specific...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012505210
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Windows of technological opportunity: do technological booms influence the relationship between firm size and innovativeness?
Degner, Harald - 2010
Many papers have been written about the effect of firm size on innovativeness, revealing a positive, a negative or a mixed impact. To this day, the so-called Schumpeterian hypothesis of the above-average innovativeness of large firms has been neither confirmed nor rejected, often because of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010299992
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The early diffusion of the steam engine in Britain, 1700-1800: A reappraisal
Nuvolari, Alessandro; Verspagen, Bart; Von Tunzelmann, Nick - 2011
We examine the diffusion of steam technology across British counties during the eighteenth century. First, we provide new estimates for the regional variations in the timing, pace and extent of usage of steam engines. Our main data source is an updated version of the list of steam engines...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010328496
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Deviant behavior: A century of Philippine industrialization
de Dios, Emmanuel S.; Williamson, Jeffrey G. - 2013
% industrial growth club: Japan 1899, China 1900, the Philippines 1913, Taiwan 1914, Korea 1921, and India 1929. The Philippines …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010333519
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A long-run perspective on the spatial concentration of manufacturing industries in the United States
Crafts, Nicholas F. R.; Klein, Alexander - 2017
We construct spatially-weighted indices of the geographic concentration of U.S. manufacturing industries during the period 1880 to 1997 using data from the Census of Manufactures and Bureau of Labor Statistics. Several important new results emerge from this exercise. First, we find that average...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011943085
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The design of licensing contracts: Chemicals, pharmaceuticals, and electrical engineering in imperial Germany
Burhop, Carsten; Lübbers, Thorsten - 2011
We investigate a sample of 180 technology licensing contracts closed by German chemical, pharmaceutical, and electrical engineering companies between 1880 and 1913. Our empirical results suggest that strategic behaviour seems to be relevant for the design of licensing contracts, whereas inventor...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010286716
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Historical sources of institutional trajectories in economic development: China, Japan, and Korea compared
Aoki, Masahiko - 2012
sources of institutional trajectories of economic development in China, Japan, and Korea. It stylizes the Malthusian-phase of … states of Qing China, Tokugawa Japan, and Yi Korea by focusing on the way in which agricultural taxes were enforced. It also …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010397352