Favorites of Fortune: Technology, Growth, and Economic Development Since the Industrial Revolution

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Patrice L. R. Higonnet, David S. Landes, Henry Rosovsky
Harvard University Press, 1991 - Počet stran: 558
A galaxy of distinguished international economists and historians pit economic history against the shaky assumptions of the classical economic theory of natural growth. Their explanations consider the factors of technology, entrepreneurialism, and paths to economic growth, but each reflects an ideological wave of explanation that has marked the last two hundred years.

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On Technology and Growth
1
Paul A David The Hero and the Herd in Technological
72
Rudolf Braun The Docile Body as an EconomicIndustrial
120
Entrepreneurial
142
Paul Bairoch The City and Technological Innovation
159
Joel Mokyr Dear Labor Cheap Labor and the Industrial
177
Robert C Allen Entrepreneurship Total Factor Productivity
203
François Crouzet The Huguenots and the English Financial
221
Jonathan Hughes Public Sector Entrepreneurship
297
Peter Temin Entrepreneurs and Managers
339
Jeffrey G Williamson Did Englands Cities Grow Too Fast
359
Past
395
Anne O Krueger Benefits and Costs of Late Development
459
Irma Adelman Prometheus Unbound and Developing
482
Discrimination against
511
Contributors
539

William Lazonick What Happened to the Theory
267

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David S. Landes was born in Brooklyn, New York on April 29, 1924. He graduated from the City College of New York in 1942. He received a master's degree in history in 1943 and a Ph.D. in history in 1953 from Harvard University. During World War II, he was drafted into the Army and was assigned to the Signal Corps because he had been taking mail-order courses in cryptanalysis. He worked on deciphering Japanese messages about the atomic bombs dropped on Japan. He later worked on a history of German preparations for the invasion of Normandy. His dissertation, Bankers and Pashas: International Finance and Economic Imperialism in Egypt, became his first book. His other works included Revolution in Time: Clocks and the Making of the Modern World, The Wealth and Poverty of Nations: Why Some Are So Rich and Some So Poor, and Dynasties: Fortunes and Misfortunes of the World's Great Family Businesses. He taught at numerous universities during his lifetime including Columbia University, the University of California at Berkeley, and Harvard University, where he retired in 1996. He died on August 17, 2013 at the age of 89.

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