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Evidence from the Patent Record on the Development of Cash Dispensing Technology
Batiz-Lazo, Bernardo; Reid, Robert J. K. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
There are but a handful of systematic studies on the history of automated teller machines (ATMs) yet all fail to address the issue of paternity while perpetrating ‘common wisdom’ beliefs. This article looks at the birth of currency dispensing equipment, the immediate predecessor to the ATM....
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Engineers, Innovative Capacity and Development in the Americas
Maloney, William F.; Caicedo, Felipe Valencia - UNIVERSIDAD DE LOS ANDES-CEDE - 2014
Using newly collected national and sub-national data and historical case studies, this paper argues that differences in innovative capacity, captured by the density of engineers at the dawn of the Second Industrial Revolution, are important to explaining present in come differences, and, in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010828272
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Was the French Patent System democratic ? France, 19th century
Galvez-Behar, Gabriel - HAL - 2008
institutional economics. Naturally, the relationship between patent system and economic performance has been explored by economists … of invention», which was manifested by its patent systems. Contrary to the American one, «the European systems reflected … their long run competitiveness.» ( B. Zorina Khan, The Democratization of Invention : Patents and Copyright in American …
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The story behind the song : 150 songs that chronicle the 20th century
Barnet, Richard D.; Nemerov, Bruce; Taylor, Mayo R. - 2004
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How sex changed : a history of transsexuality in the United States
Meyerowitz, Joanne - 2002
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The Salvadoran Americans
Cordova, Carlos B. - 2005
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Urban triage : race and the fictions of multiculturalism
Lee, James Kyung-Jin - 2004
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Endorsements in advertising : a social history
Segrave, Kerry - 2005
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Growth hormone, enhancement and the pharmaceuticalisation of short stature
Morrison, Michael - In: Social Science & Medicine 131 (2015) C, pp. 305-312
This paper takes the biological drug human Growth Hormone (hGH) as a case study to investigate processes of pharmaceuticalisation and medicalisation in configuring childhood short stature as a site for pharmaceutical intervention. Human growth hormone is considered to have legitimate...
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Understanding Long-Term Energy Use and Carbon Dioxide Emissions in the Usa
Tol, Richard S.J.; Pacala, Stephen W.; Socolow, Robert - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2006
We compile a database of energy uses, energy sources, and carbon dioxide emissions for the USA for the period 1850 …
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