{"product_id":"technical-choice-innovation-and-economic-growth-essays-on-american-and-british-experience-in-the-nineteenth-century-paperback-9780521098755","title":"Technical Choice Innovation and Economic Growth; Essays on American and British Experience in the Nineteenth Century (Paperback \/ softback) 9780521098755","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eTechnical Choice Innovation and Economic Growth\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eEssays on American and British Experience in the Nineteenth Century\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThis book deals with technological innovations of the nineteenth century.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003ePaul A. David (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780521098755, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 28 February 1975\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e348 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.4 x 2 cm, 0.532 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eThis book deals with technological innovations of the nineteenth century. In a number of self-contained but related essays it treats the salient aspects of technological change that have interested modern economists and economic historians, as well as historians of technology: economically induced invention and innovation, learning by doing in industrial operations, the diffusion of new production techniques, and the bearing of these upon the growth of a society's productivity. The studies are detailed, in the sense that they focus not upon the economy as a whole, but rather upon the experiences of specific industries, branches of manufacturing, and individual productive units such as the mid-Victorial grain farm and the New England cotton textile mill. They attempt to integrate traditional historical methods and materials with a more explicit reliance on economic theorizing and applications of statistical analysis to test hypotheses.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eAcknowledgements\u003cbr\u003e Introduction: technology, history and growth\u003cbr\u003e Part I. Concepts and Preconceptions: 1. Labor scarcity and the problem of technological practice and progress in nineteenth-century America\u003cbr\u003e Part II. Generation: 2. Learning by doing and tariff protection: a reconsideration of the case of the ante-bellum United States cotton textile industry\u003cbr\u003e Addendum: estimated rates of labor equality change\u003cbr\u003e 3. The 'Horndal effect' in Lowell, 1834–56: a short-run learning curve for integrated cotton textile mills\u003cbr\u003e Part III. Diffusion: 4. The mechanization of reaping in the ante-bellum Midwest\u003cbr\u003e Addendum: threshold farm size\u003cbr\u003e 5. The landscape and the machine: technical interrelatedness, land tenure and the mechanization of the corn harvest in Victorian Britain\u003cbr\u003e Appendix A: technical notes\u003cbr\u003e Appendix B: source of the parameters and variables\u003cbr\u003e Part IV. Ramifications: 6. Transport innovations and economic growth: Professor Fogel on and off the rails\u003cbr\u003e References\u003cbr\u003e Index.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: History [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on History\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22History%20%5BHB%5D%22\"\u003eHB\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46006390587672,"sku":"9780521098755","price":43.49,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/products\/9780521098755i_878ebfe5-d390-4700-baef-831a43ac7224.jpg?v=1694970673","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/technical-choice-innovation-and-economic-growth-essays-on-american-and-british-experience-in-the-nineteenth-century-paperback-9780521098755","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}