- Introduction: On Technology and Growth [David S. Landes]
- I. Technology
- The Conquest of High Mortality and Hunger in Europe and America: Timing and Mechanisms [Robert W. Fogel]
- The Hero and the Herd in Technological History: Reflections on Thomas Edison and the Battle of the Systems [Paul A. David]
- The “Docile” Body as an Economic-Industrial Growth Factor [Rudolf Braun]
- The Choice of Technique: Entrepreneurial Decisions in the Nineteenth-Century European Cotton and Steel Industries [Wolfram Fischer]
- The City and Technological Innovation [Paul Bairoch]
- Dear Labor, Cheap Labor, and the Industrial Revolution [Joel Mokyr]
- II. Entrepreneurialism
- Entrepreneurship, Total Factor Productivity, and Economic Efficiency: Landes, Solow, and Farrell Thirty Years Later [Robert C. Allen]
- The Huguenots and the English Financial Revolution [François Crouzet]
- What Happened to the Theory of Economic Development? [William Lazonick]
- Public Sector Entrepreneurship [Jonathan Hughes]
- Employment Strategies and Production Structures in the Swiss Watchmaking Industry [François Jequier]
- Entrepreneurs and Managers [Peter Temin]
- III. Paths of Economic Growth
- Did England’s Cities Grow Too Fast during the Industrial Revolution? [Jeffrey G. Williamson]
- Technology and the Economic Theorist: Past, Present, and Future [W. W. Rostow]
- Creating Competitive Capability: Innovation and Investment in the United States, Great Britain, and Germany from the 1870s to World War I [Alfred D. Chandler, Jr.]
- Benefits and Costs of Late Development [Anne O. Krueger]
- Prometheus Unbound and Developing Countries [Irma Adelman]
- Marriage Bars: Discrimination against Married Women Workers from the 1920s to the 1950s [Claudia Goldin]
- Contributors
- Index
Favorites of Fortune
Technology, Growth, and Economic Development since the Industrial Revolution
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Publication Date: 08/11/1998
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