Technical Choice Innovation and Economic Growth: Essays on American and British Experience in the Nineteenth Century - Brossura

David, Paul

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0521098750 ISBN 13: 9780521098755

Casa editrice: Cambridge University Press, 2010

Riassunto

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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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.

Contenuti:

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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• Editore: Cambridge University Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0521098750
• ISBN 13: 9780521098755
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 348