This book, which was written by Angus Maddison as a contribution to the OECD
Development Centre's research programme on financial systems, resource allocation and …

The United States became the world's preeminent manufacturing nation at the turn of the
twentieth century. This study considers the bases for this success by examining the factor …

Both authors of this essay have been working for some time on the questions addressed
here. Nelson's wbrk was supported by the Sloan Foundation through its grant to the …

By MAXINE BERG and PAT HUDSON he historiography of the industrial revolution in
England has moved T away from viewing the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries …

Technological advance is the key driving force behind economic growth, argues Richard
Nelson. Investments in physical and human capital contribute to growth largely as …

Many distinguished foreign visitors to the United States in the 1850s commented on the
advanced states of mechanization in manufacturing. But why, at the same time, were interest …

The commonly accepted chronology for comparative productivity levels, based on GDP data,
does not apply to the manufacturing sector, which shows evidence of a much greater degree …

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University of Groningen Standardised Estimates of Fixed Capital Stock Maddison, Angus …

As recently as twenty-five years ago, regional economic backwardness in the states of the
traditional American South was considered an intractable problem of continuing national …

This book presents interviews with 25 scholars who participated, directly or indirectly, in the
development of an intellectual movement–often called a revolution–that in the past half …