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Learning by doing in markets, firms, and countries
Lamoreaux, Naomi R. (ed.); Raff, Daniel M. G. (contributor);  … - 1999
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10000663281
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Crisis Innovation Policy from World War II to COVID-19
Gross, Daniel P.; Sampat, Bhaven N. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
Innovation policy can be a crucial component of governments' responses to crises. Because speed is a paramount … objective, crisis innovation may also require different policy tools than innovation policy in non-crisis times, raising … distinct questions and tradeoffs. In this paper, we survey the U.S. policy response to two crises where innovation was crucial …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012585399
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Organizational Frictions and Increasing Returns to Automation : Lessons from AT&T in the Twentieth Century
Feigenbaum, James J.; Gross, Daniel P. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
AT&T was the largest U.S. firm for most of the 20th century. Telephone operators once comprised over 50% of its workforce, but in the late 1910s it initiated a decades-long process of automating telephone operation with mechanical call switching--a technology first invented in the 1880s. We...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012794608
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The Economics of Crisis Innovation Policy : A Historical Perspective
Gross, Daniel P.; Sampat, Bhaven N. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
-produced penicillin, antimalarials, and a flu vaccine. We draw on this episode to discuss the economics of crisis innovation. Since the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012482553
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The Battle Over Patents : History and the Politics of Innovation
Haber, Stephen H.; Lamoreaux, Naomi R. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
innovation. The features of these systems take shape as interests at different points in the production chain seek advantage in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012533323
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Fertility and Labor Market Responses to Reductions in Mortality
Bhalotra, Sonia R.; Venkataramani, Atheendar S.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
We investigate women's fertility, labor and marriage market responses to a health innovation that led to reductions in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013361971
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The evolution of retirement : an American economic history, 1880 - 1990
Costa, Dora L. - 1998
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10000633426
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A brief history of education in the United States
Goldin, Claudia (contributor) - 1999 - [Elektronische Ressource]
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001511998
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A prelude to the welfare state : the origins of workers' compensation
Fishback, Price Van Meter; Kantor, Shawn Everett - 2000
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001390799
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Emerging Financial Markets and Early U.S. Growth
Rousseau, Peter L. - 1999
Studies of early U.S. growth traditionally have emphasized real-sector explanations for an acceleration that by many accounts became detectable between 1815 and 1840. Interestingly, the establishment of the nation's basic financial structure predated by three decades the canals, railroads, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012471335