History matters : essays on economic growth, technology, and demographic change / edited by Timothy W. Guinnane, William A. Sundstrom, and Warren Whatley.
"The essays collected in this volume were, with two exceptions, presented at a conference in honor of Professor Paul A. David, held at Stanford University on June 2-3, 2000. The conference was sponsored by the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR)"--Pref. Includes bibliographical references (p. [507]-510).
Contents:
Path dependence and competitive equilibrium / Kenneth J. Arrow -- Path dependence and reswitching in a model of multi-technology adoption / Paul Stoneman -- Path dependence, network form, and technological change / Douglas J. Puffert -- The tension between strong history and strong economics / Melvin W. Reder -- Financial history and the long reach of the second Thirty-years' war / Charles W. Calomiris -- Path dependence in action : the adoption and persistence of the Korean model of economic development / Phillip Wonhyuk Lim -- Continuing confusion : entry prices in telecommunications / Peter Temin -- After the war boom : reconversion on the Pacific coast, 1943-1949 / Paul W. Rhode -- Standardization, diversity, and learning in China's nuclear power program / Geoffrey Rothwell -- Incentives, information, and welfare : England's new poor law and the workhouse test / Timothy Besley, Stephen Coate, and Timothy W. Guinnane -- Family matters : the life-cycle transition and the antebellum American fertility decline / Susan B. Carter, Roger L. Ransom, and Richard Sutch -- Building "universal service" in the early Bell system : the coevolution of regional urban systems and long-distance telephone networks / David F. Weiman -- International competition for technology investments : does national ownership matter? / Trond E. Olsen -- Conjectural estimates of economic growth in the lower south, 1720 to 1800 / Peter C. Mancall, Joshua L. Rosenbloom, and Thomas Weiss -- The value-added approach to the measurement of economic growth / Mark Thomas and Charles Feinstein -- A user's guide to the joys and pitfalls of cohort parity analysis / Warren C. Sanderson -- Stochastic dynamic optimization models with random effects in parameters : an application to age at marriage and life-cycle fertility control in France under the old regime / Thomas A. Mroz and David R. Weir.
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