Frontmatter -- Preface -- Contents -- Tables -- Appendix -- Part I. 1840-1850 -- 1. The economic Climate of Brazil 1800-1890 -- 2. Location and Product -- 3. Organization, Finance, and Machinery -- 4. Cotton -- 5. Labor -- 6. Products and distribution -- Part II. 1890-1930 -- 7. Industry and...

The diffusion of technological knowledge is key to industry growth. But not all knowledge is created equal. I use a nanoeconomic approach to examine knowledge-diffusion based growth in the Meiji-era Japanese cotton spinning industry, which enjoyed remarkable success after a decade of initial...