Technical Choice Innovation and Economic Growth
Essays on American and British Experience in the Nineteenth Century
- Author: Paul A. David
- Date Published: May 1975
- availability: Available
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521098755
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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.
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- Date Published: May 1975
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521098755
- length: 348 pages
- dimensions: 229 x 154 x 20 mm
- weight: 0.532kg
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
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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