Technical Choice Innovation and Economic Growth
Essays on American and British Experience in the Nineteenth Century
Published on 15. May 1975
Book
Hardback
344 pages
978-0-521-20518-4 (ISBN)
Description
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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Language
English
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Cambridge
United Kingdom
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Professional and scholarly
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Weight
581 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-521-20518-4 (9780521205184)
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Technical Choice Innovation and Economic Growth
Essays on American and British Experience in the Nineteenth Century
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Content
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.