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
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Front matter, Learning by Doing in Markets, Firms, and Countries:
Naomi R. Lamoreaux, Daniel Raff, Peter Temin
(p. -9 - 0)
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Introduction:
Naomi R. Lamoreaux, Daniel Raff, Peter Temin
(p. 1 - 18)
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Inventors, Firms, and the Market for Technology in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries :
Naomi R. Lamoreaux, Kenneth L. Sokoloff
(p. 19 - 60)
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Patents, Engineering Professionals, and the Pipelines of Innovation: The Internalization of Technical Discovery by Nineteenth-Century American Railroads :
Steven Usselman
(p. 61 - 102)
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The Sugar Institute Learns to Organize Information Exchange:
David Genesove, Wallace Mullin
(p. 103 - 144)
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Learning by New Experiences: Revisiting the Flying Fortress Learning Curve:
Kazuhiro Mishina
(p. 145 - 184)
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Assets, Organizations, Strategies, and Traditions: Organizational Capabilities and Constraints in the Remaking of Ford Motor Company, 1946-1962:
David Hounshell
(p. 185 - 218)
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Sears, Roebuck in the Twentieth Century: Competition, Complementarities, and the Problem of Wasting Assets:
Daniel Raff, Peter Temin
(p. 219 - 252)
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Marshall's "Trees" and the Global "Forest": Were "Giant Redwoods" Different?:
Leslie Hannah
(p. 253 - 294)
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Can a Nation Learn? American Technology as a Network Phenomenon:
Gavin Wright
(p. 295 - 332)
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Contributors:
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Name Index:
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Subject Index:
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