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The Match King, Chapter 9 : The Author's Cut
Partnoy, Frank - 2010
Scandals. That chapter - entitled “Weekend in Germany” - is the climax of the story, and it acts as the fulcrum of a new …
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The Myth of the Early Aviation Patent Hold-Up – How a U.S. Government Monopsony Commandeered Pioneer Airplane Patents
Katznelson, Ron D.; Howells, John - 2018
The prevailing historical accounts of the formation of the US aircraft “patent pool” in 1917 assume the US government necessarily intervened to alleviate a patent hold-up among private aircraft manufacturers. We show these accounts to be inconsistent with the historical facts. We show that...
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The heterogeneity of the machine tool industry in Brazil
Guerrero, Glaison Augusto; Fonseca, Pedro Cezar Dutra; … - In: Economia : revista da ANPEC 18 (2017) 2, pp. 260-274
The current paper aimed to investigate the reasons for the technological and competitive heterogeneity in the machine tool industry in Brazil. By analyzing the trajectory of the sector, we can highlight three main reasons for such heterogeneity. First, due to the competitive framework that...
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The Politics of Mass Production : Government Promotion of Standardization During the First World War
Asner, Glen - 2018
To what extent did government policies during World War I encourage American manufacturers to adopt mass production techniques? Historical studies have illuminated the military origins of many of the technologies underlying mass production and the social and economic circumstances that have...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014033250
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What Is Made in America?
Nicholson, Jessica - 2015
Accurately determining how much of our economy's total production is American-made can be a daunting task. However, data from the Commerce Department's U.S. Census Bureau and the Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) can help shed light on the dollar value of what America produces, and what...
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Ukraine : Post-War Economic & Workforce Development
Hatch, Phil - 2022
As of June 2022, the cost to rebuild Ukraine’s infrastructure destroyed by Russia likely exceeds $1 trillion. With forecasted high poverty rates, social services will likely cost an additional $1 trillion until Ukraine can financially self-sustain. Lastly, the cost to recapitalize and make...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014082576
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Fit for war in decades : Europe's and Germany's slow rearmament vis-à-vis Russia
Wolff, Guntram B.; Burilkov, Alexandr; Bushnell, Katelyn; … - 2024
Russian material losses in Ukraine. Meanwhile, the build-up of German capacities is progressing slowly. We document Germany …'s military procurement in a new Kiel Military Procurement Tracker and find that Germany did not meaningfully increase procurement … in the one and a half years after February 2022, and only accelerated it in late 2023. Given Germany's massive …
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Demystifying the German Armament Miracle During World War Ii : New Insights from the Annual Audits of German Aircraft Producers
Streb, Jochen; Scherner, Jonas; Budraß, Lutz - 2015
Armament minister Albert Speer is usually credited with causing the boom in German armament production after 1941. This paper uses the annual audit reports of the Deutsche Revisions - und Treuhand AG for seven firms which together represented about 50% of the German aircraft producers. We...
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Fit for war by 2030? : European rearmament efforts vis-à-vis Russia
Burilkov, Alex; Bushnell, Katelyn; Mejino-López, Juan; … - 2025
This report updates and expands the data-driven work of our initial study from September 2024, which concluded that Europe would only be fit for war in several decades. We show that the situation today is even more concerning if Europe aims to be fit for war by 2030. First, Russia continues to...
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Fit for war in decades: Europe's and Germany's slow rearmament vis-à-vis Russia
Wolff, Guntram B.; Burilkov, Alexandr; Bushnell, Katelyn - 2024
Russian material losses in Ukraine. Meanwhile, the build-up of German capacities is progressing slowly. We document Germany …'s military procurement in a new Kiel Military Procurement Tracker and find that Germany did not meaningfully increase procurement … in the one and a half years after February 2022, and only accelerated it in late 2023. Given Germany's massive …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015106488