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In: Monograph and research series 56
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In: Monograph and research series 56
In: The new leader: a biweekly of news and opinion, Volume 88, Issue 5, p. 26-27
ISSN: 0028-6044
In: The journal of economic history, Volume 56, Issue 4, p. 947-948
ISSN: 1471-6372
In: The journal of economic history, Volume 53, Issue 3, p. 709-710
ISSN: 1471-6372
In: The journal of economic history, Volume 53, Issue 2, p. 404-408
ISSN: 1471-6372
In: The journal of economic history, Volume 51, Issue 2, p. 526-528
ISSN: 1471-6372
In: The journal of economic history, Volume 48, Issue 4, p. 813-850
ISSN: 1471-6372
A sample of patent records from the United States between 1790 and 1846 is employed to study the patterns in inventive activity. Patenting was pro-cyclical, and yet began to grow rapidly with the interruptions in foreign trade that preceded the War of 1812. A strong association between patenting and proximity to navigable waterways is also demonstrated. Although the importance of specific mechanisms remains unclear, both the temporal and cross-sectional evidence imply that inventive activity was positively related to the growth of markets during early industrialization.
In: The journal of economic history, Volume 48, Issue 1, p. 205-206
ISSN: 1471-6372
In: The journal of economic history, Volume 45, Issue 4, p. 999-1001
ISSN: 1471-6372
In: Explorations in economic history: EEH, Volume 21, Issue 4, p. 351-382
ISSN: 0014-4983
In: The journal of economic history, Volume 44, Issue 2, p. 545-556
ISSN: 1471-6372
This paper utilizes a survey of U. S. manufacturing firms from 1832 to investigate the structure of manufacturing investment during early industrialization. The relative magnitudes of investments in fixed and working capital, and how they varied with firm size, location, and industry, are documented. This variation across industries in the composition of capital investments is indicative of a more general variation in factor intensities, and bears on the issues of why industries became concentrated in the regions they did, and the degrees to which they were adversely affected by the limited availability of long–term loans. Evidence that most manufacturing industries had quite modest investments in machinery and tools per unit of labor is also presented, serving to undercut the notion that the early period of industrialization was based on a proliferation of new, machinery–intensive technologies.
In: NBER Working Paper No. w1384
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In: The journal of economic history, Volume 43, Issue 4, p. 1033-1035
ISSN: 1471-6372
In: Explorations in economic history: EEH, Volume 34, Issue 3, p. 243-264
ISSN: 0014-4983