Favorites of fortune : technology, growth, and economic development since the Industrial Revolution

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Introduction : on technology and growth / David S. Landes

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

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

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