This paper studies the impact of the early adoption of one of the most important high-technology machines in history, the public mechanical clock, on long-run growth in Europe. We avoid endo-geneity by considering the relationship between the adoption of clocks with an instrument based on the...

Aus dem Institut fur Agrar- und Ernahrungswissenschaften (Geschaftsflihrender Direktor: Prof. Dr. Reinhold Jahn) der Naturwissenschaftlichen Fakultat III (Dekan: Prof. Dr. Peter Wycisk) der...

The story of John Snow's 1855 treatise "On the mode of communication of cholera" is a rollicking good tale – full of heroism, death, and statistics. But more fundamentally Snow's work is a sustained effort to convince skeptics, through argument and a wide variety of evidence, of the waterborne...