This paper documents industrial output and labor productivity growth around the poor periphery 1870-1940 (Latin America …, the European periphery, the Middle East, South Asia, Southeast Asia and East Asia). Intensive and extensive industrial … an early effort to identify the sources underlying the spread of the industrial revolution to the poor periphery …

This paper documents industrial output growth around the poor periphery (Latin America, the European periphery, the …

The pace of innovation is related both to the level of investment in innovation and the pool of knowledge from which … innovators can draw. Both of these are endogenous: Investments in innovations are affected by the pool of knowledge and the … and design of IPR affects the extent to which any innovation adds to or subtracts from the pool of ideas that are …

? Could Federal policies disperse innovation without significant costs? If research funding is already maximizing knowledge …'s most persistent pockets of joblessness. Could a more even spatial distribution of innovation reduce American joblessness … production, then spatial reallocation of that funding will reduce America's overall innovation unless that reallocation comes …

a model of endogenous growth with frictions. Productivity increases with knowledge, which advances via innovation, and …The generation and implementation of ideas, or knowledge, is crucial for economic performance. We study this process in … characterize optimal policies to subsidize research and trade in ideas, given both knowledge and search externalities. We discuss …