Technical choice innovation and economic growth : essays on American and British experience in the nineteenth century

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Technical choice innovation and economic growth : essays on American and British experience in the nineteenth century

Paul A. David

UMI Books on Demand, 1975

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Reprint. Originally published: London : Cambridge University Press , 1975

Bibliography: p. 315-324

Includes index

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This book deals with technological innovations of the nineteenth century. In a number of self-contained but related essays it treats the salient aspects of technological change that have interested modern economists and economic historians, as well as historians of technology: economically induced invention and innovation, learning by doing in industrial operations, the diffusion of new production techniques, and the bearing of these upon the growth of a society's productivity. The studies are detailed, in the sense that they focus not upon the economy as a whole, but rather upon the experiences of specific industries, branches of manufacturing, and individual productive units such as the mid-Victorial grain farm and the New England cotton textile mill. They attempt to integrate traditional historical methods and materials with a more explicit reliance on economic theorizing and applications of statistical analysis to test hypotheses.

目次

  • Acknowledgements
  • Introduction: technology, history and growth
  • Part I. Concepts and Preconceptions: 1. Labor scarcity and the problem of technological practice and progress in nineteenth-century America
  • Part II. Generation: 2. Learning by doing and tariff protection: a reconsideration of the case of the ante-bellum United States cotton textile industry
  • Addendum: estimated rates of labor equality change
  • 3. The 'Horndal effect' in Lowell, 1834-56: a short-run learning curve for integrated cotton textile mills
  • Part III. Diffusion: 4. The mechanization of reaping in the ante-bellum Midwest
  • Addendum: threshold farm size
  • 5. The landscape and the machine: technical interrelatedness, land tenure and the mechanization of the corn harvest in Victorian Britain
  • Appendix A: technical notes
  • Appendix B: source of the parameters and variables
  • Part IV. Ramifications: 6. Transport innovations and economic growth: Professor Fogel on and off the rails
  • References
  • Index.

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