Frontmatter -- Preface -- Contents -- The setting of the problem -- Patent statistics -- The role of intellectual stimuli -- The use of important inventions as a cause of further inventions -- Productivity advance: A Case of supply and demand? -- The amount of invention is governed by the extent...

Frontmatter -- Preface -- Contents -- Tables -- I. Level and Variability of Rates of Growth -- II. Growth of Productivity and Nonconventional Costs -- III. Sectoral Shares in Product: A Cross-Section View -- IV. Sectoral Shares in Product: Long-Term Trends -- V. Sectoral Shares in Labor Force: A...

While there is strong evidence that becoming an exporter increases firm productivity, the underlying mechanisms that explain such a relationship remain largely unexplored. This paper analyses the contribution of the complementarity between exporting and investment in technology as an potential...

Frontmatter -- PREFACE -- CONTENTS -- Tables. Figures -- ABBREVIATIONS -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- PART ONE. PLANNING AND POLICY -- 2. SOVIET PLANNING REFORMS -- 3. TOWARD A NEW GROWTH MODEL -- 4. ENTREPRENEURSHIP AND PROFITS IN THE USSR -- PART TWO / LEVELS OF OUTPUT AND PRODUCTIVITY -- 5. THE...

Frontmatter -- PREFACE -- CONTENTS -- CHAPTER I. BALTIMORE & OHIO -- CHAPTER II. ERIE -- CHAPTER III. PHILADELPHIA & READING -- CHAPTER IV. PHILADELPHIA & READING -- CHAPTER V. THE SOUTHERN -- CHAPTER VI. ATCHISON, TOPEKA & SANTA FE -- CHAPTER VII. UNION PACIFIC -- CHAPTER VIII. NORTHERN PACIFIC...