Favorites of fortune : technology, growth, and economic development since the Industrial Revolution /
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Cambridge, Mass. :
Harvard University Press,
1991.
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Table of 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.