Favorites of Fortune

Technology, Growth, and Economic Development since the Industrial Revolution

Edited by Patrice Higonnet

Edited by David S. Landes

Edited by Henry Rosovsky

    David S. Landes Introduction: On Technology and Growth

    I. Technology

    Robert W. Fogel The Conquest of High Mortality and Hunger in Europe and America: Timing and Mechanisms

    Paul A. David The Hero and the Herd in Technological History: Reflections on Thomas Edison and the Battle of the Systems

    Rudolf Braun The "Docile" Body as an Economic-Industrial Growth Factor

    Wolfram Fischer The Choice of Technique: Entrepreneurial Decisions in the Nineteenth-Century European Cotton and Steel Industries

    Paul Bairoch The City and Technological Innovation

    Joel Mokyr Dear Labor, Cheap Labor, and the Industrial Revolution

    II. Entrepreneurialism

    Robert C. Allen Entrepreneurship, Total Factor Productivity, and Economic Efficiency: Landes, Solow, and Farrell Thirty Years Later

    François Crouzet The Huguenots and the English Financial Revolution

    William Lazonick What Happened to the Theory of Economic Development?

    Jonathan Hughes Public Sector Entrepreneurship

    François Jequier Employment Strategies and Production Structures in the Swiss Watchmaking Industry

    Peter Temin Entrepreneurs and Managers

    III. Paths of Economic Growth

    Jeffrey G. Williamson Did England's Cities Grow Too Fast during the Industrial Revolution?

    W. W. Rostow Technology and the Economic Theorist: Past, Present, and Future

    Alfred D. Chandler, Jr. Creating Competitive Capability: Innovation and Investment in the United States, Great Britain, and Germany from the 1870s to World War I

    Anne O. Krueger Benefits and Costs of Late Development

    Irma Adelman Prometheus Unbound and Developing Countries

    Claudia Goldin Marriage Bars: Discrimination against Married Women Workers from the 1920s to the 1950s

    Contributors
    Index

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Patrice Higonnet is Robert Walton Goelet Professor of French History, Harvard University.

David S. Landes is Coolidge Professor of History and Professor of Economics, Emeritus, Harvard University, and the author of The Wealth and Poverty of Nations.

Henry Rosovsky is Lewis P. and Linda L. Geyser University Professor at Harvard University.