NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH
NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH

Learning by Doing in Markets, Firms, and Countries

Naomi R. Lamoreaux, Daniel M. G. Raff and Peter Temin, editors

Published in January 1999 by University of Chicago Press
© 1999 by the National Bureau of Economic Research

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336 pages
ISBN: 0-226-46832-1

Table of Contents

1. Front matter, Learning by Doing in Markets, Firms, and Countries: Naomi R. Lamoreaux, Daniel Raff, Peter Temin (p. -9 - 0) (bibliographic info) (download)

Introduction: Naomi R. Lamoreaux, Daniel Raff, Peter Temin (p. 1 - 18) (bibliographic info) (download)

2. Inventors, Firms, and the Market for Technology in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries : Naomi R. Lamoreaux, Kenneth L. Sokoloff (p. 19 - 60) (bibliographic info) (download)

3. Patents, Engineering Professionals, and the Pipelines of Innovation: The Internalization of Technical Discovery by Nineteenth-Century American Railroads : Steven Usselman (p. 61 - 102) (bibliographic info) (download)

4. The Sugar Institute Learns to Organize Information Exchange: David Genesove, Wallace Mullin (p. 103 - 144) (bibliographic info) (download)

5. Learning by New Experiences: Revisiting the Flying Fortress Learning Curve: Kazuhiro Mishina (p. 145 - 184) (bibliographic info) (download)

6. Assets, Organizations, Strategies, and Traditions: Organizational Capabilities and Constraints in the Remaking of Ford Motor Company, 1946-1962: David Hounshell (p. 185 - 218) (bibliographic info) (download)

7. Sears, Roebuck in the Twentieth Century: Competition, Complementarities, and the Problem of Wasting Assets: Daniel Raff, Peter Temin (p. 219 - 252) (bibliographic info) (download)

8. Marshall's "Trees" and the Global "Forest": Were "Giant Redwoods" Different?: Leslie Hannah (p. 253 - 294) (bibliographic info) (download)

9. Can a Nation Learn? American Technology as a Network Phenomenon: Gavin Wright (p. 295 - 332) (bibliographic info) (download)

10. Contributors: (p. 333 - 334) (bibliographic info) (download)

11. Name Index: (p. 335 - 340) (bibliographic info) (download)

12. Subject Index: (p. 341 - 347) (bibliographic info) (download)

 
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