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Title:

Favorites of fortune : technology, growth, and economic development since the Industrial Revolution / edited by Patrice Higonnet, David S. Landes, Henry Rosovsky.

Publisher:

Harvard University Press,

Copyright Date:

1991

Description:

viii, 558 p. ; 25 cm.

Subject:

Economic history.
Industry--History.
Technological innovations--History.--History.

Other Authors:

Higonnet, Patrice L. R.
Landes, David S.
Rosovsky, Henry.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

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.

ISBN:

9780674295209
067429520X

OCLC:

(OCoLC)23583924

LCCN:

91012249

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

PTAX572 -- Stewart Memorial Library (Cedar Rapids)

PLAX964 -- Luther College - Preus Library (Decorah)

PRAX771 -- Cowles Library (Des Moines)

OIAX792 -- Grinnell College (Grinnell)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

UTAX115 -- Buena Vista University Library (Storm Lake)

PQAX094 -- Wartburg College - Vogel Library (Waverly)