We measure technological progress in oceanic shipping by using a large database of daily log entries from ships of the British and Dutch navies and East India Companies to estimate daily sailing speed in different wind conditions from 1750 to 1850. Against the consensus, dating back to North...

The rise and fall of public enterprise: the framework / Pier Angelo Toninelli -- The decline of state-owned enterprise and the new foundations of the state-industry relationship / Nicola Bellini -- The performance of state-owned enterprises / Yair Aharoni -- The role of the state in economic...