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090 $aHC79.T4$bF38 1995
245 00 $aFavorites of fortune :$btechnology, growth, and economic development since the Industrial Revolution /$cedited by Patrice Higonnet, David S. Landes, Henry Rosovsky.
250 $a1st Harvard University Press paperback ed.
260 $aCambridge, Mass. :$bHarvard University Press,$c1995.
300 $aviii, 558 p. ;$c24 cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 $aIntroduction : on technology and growth / David S. Landes -- The conquest of high mortality and hunger in Europe and America : timing and mechanisms / Robert W. Fogel -- The hero and the herd in technological history : reflections on Thomas Edison and the battle of the systems / Paul A. David -- The "docile" body as an economic-industrial growth factor / Rudolf Braun -- The choice of technique : entrepreneurial decisions in the nineteenth-century European cotton and steel industries / Wolfram Fischer -- The city and technological innovation / Paul Bairoch -- Dear labor, cheap labor, and the industrial revolution / Joel Mokyr -- Entrepreneurship, total factor productivity, and economic efficiency : Landes, Solow, and Farrell thirty years later / Robert C. Allen -- The Huguenots and the English financial revolution / François Crouzet.
505 0 $aWhat happened to the theory of economic development? / William Lazonick -- Public sector entrepreneurship / Jonathan Hughes -- Employment strategies and production structures in the Swiss watchmaking industry / François Jequier -- Entrepreneurs and managers / Peter Temin -- Did England's cities grow too fast during the Industrial Revolution? / Jeffrey G. Williamson -- Technology and the economic theorist : past, present, and future / W.W. Rostow -- Creating competitive capability : innovation and investment in the United States, Great Britain, and Germany from the 1870s to World War I / Alfred D. Chandler, Jr. -- Benefits and costs of late development / Anne O. Krueger -- Prometheus unbound and developing countries / Irma Adelman -- Marriage bars : discrimination against married women workers from the 1920s to the 1950s / Claudia Goldin.
650 0 $aTechnological innovations$xEconomic aspects$xHistory.
650 0 $aEconomic history.
650 0 $aIndustries$xHistory.
700 1 $aHigonnet, Patrice L. R.
700 1 $aLandes, David S.
700 1 $aRosovsky, Henry.
700 1 $aChandler, Alfred D.$q(Alfred Dupont),$d1918-2007,$eformer owner.$5bak
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