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The Unbound Prometheus: Technological Change and Industrial Development in Western Europe from 1750 to the Present.
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This article is published in The Economic Journal.The article was published on 1970-03-01. It has received 251 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Technological change.read more
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The Ghost of Rostow: Science, Culture and the British Industrial Revolution:
TL;DR: The intellectual case for protectionism is about as alive as a doornail as discussed by the authors, and the protectionists to take solace from this literature would be akin to flat earthers finding vindication in the fact that the Earth is slightly flattened at the poles or phlebotomists gloating about a few rare diseases in which removal of blood can be beneficial.
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An econometric analysis of the Australian Country Party, 1922-1928
TL;DR: In this paper, a formal theory of agrarian party formation, electoral support and dissolution, assembles a set of electoral, census and agricultural economic data, specifies a setof statis- tical models and estimates these models' parameters at the Australian (Commonwealth) elections of 1922, 1925 and 1928.
The Evolution of the Red River Valley Settlement System, 1714--1860.
TL;DR: The trajectory of the evolution of the Red River valley can be divided into five vertical cross sections as discussed by the authors, with the formative phase (1714-1803) featuring the colonial regimes in political arena, extensive use of Idnd, less specialized regional economies based on fur.
The Political Economy of Seigneurialism: an Interpretation of the Historical Development of Rural Spanish America.
TL;DR: This chapter discusses Spanish Seigneurialism and its Applications to National Development in Comparative Perspective and discusses the role of language and identity in the development of Europe.