conjectures that biotechnology-induced productivity improvements increased supplies by China and India, which, in addition to …During the past decade, cotton prices remained considerably below other agricultural prices (although they recovered … toward the end of 2010). Yet, between 2000-04 and 2005-09 world cotton production increased 13 percent. This paper …

nanoeconomic approach to examine knowledge-diffusion based growth in the Meiji-era Japanese cotton spinning industry, which enjoyed …