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Research in economic history. Vol. 23 /

This volume of Research in Economic History includes eight papers. Five were submitted through regular channels and three papers which were solicited at the conference "Toward a Global History of Prices and Wages". Following is Nonnenmacher's study of the early years of the telegraph...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Field, Alexander J., Clark, Gregory, 1957-, Sundstrom, William Andrew
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam ; Oxford : Elsevier JAI, 2005.
Colección:Research in economic history.
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520 |a This volume of Research in Economic History includes eight papers. Five were submitted through regular channels and three papers which were solicited at the conference "Toward a Global History of Prices and Wages". Following is Nonnenmacher's study of the early years of the telegraph industry in the United States. The third paper is Herranz-Lonc?n's estimates of the growth of the Spanish infrastructure between 1844 and 1935. Then there are two papers based on microeconomic data. The first is the investigation by James, Palumbo and Thomas of late nineteenth century saving among working class fa. 
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505 0 |a Cover -- Contents -- List of Contributors -- Introduction -- A Soviet Quasi-Market for Inventions: Jet Propulsion, 1932-1946 -- Introduction -- The Problem of Jet Propulsion -- Scale and Scope -- Dictator, Army, and Industry in a Quasi-Market -- Action and Reaction -- Established Designers -- Citizen Initiatives -- Foreign Specialists -- The Foreign Press -- Foreign Commercial Information -- Refinancing -- Project Evaluation and Soft Budget Constraints -- The Secondary Asset Market -- Closing the Quasi-Market for Inventions -- Payoffs, Reputation, and Enforcement -- Conclusions -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Official Papers -- Publications -- Network Quality in the Early Telegraph Industry -- A Brief History of the Telegraph -- Telegraph Quality -- Telegraph Demand -- Incentives and Network Quality -- The Telegraph Network -- Double Marginalization in Price and Quality -- Inter-Firm Monitoring -- Competition -- Intra-Firm Monitoring and Integration -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- References -- Major Telegraph Companies -- Telegraph Organization Membership, Approximate Dates of Operation, and Approximate Miles of Wire -- Telegraph Companies Proposed for O'Reilly's Atlantic, Lake and Mississippi Company: 1846-1849 -- Telegraph Companies in Reid's National System: 1849-1856 -- Telegraph Companies in the Cornell/Speed/Wade System: 1853-1856 -- Telegraph Companies in The American Telegraph Confederation: 1853-1856 -- Telegraph Companies in the Six Party Contract or Treaty of Six Nations: 1857 -- The Spanish Infrastructure Stock, 1844-1935 -- Introduction -- The New Series of Spanish Infrastructure Stock and Investment: Estimation Method -- The Gross Investment Series -- Assumptions on the Useful Life and Efficiency Decay of Infrastructure -- Estimation Outcomes and Sensitivity Analysis -- The Evolution of Spanish Infrastructure Before the Civil War -- Infrastructure Investment, 1845-1935 -- The Spanish Infrastructure Stock -- Conclusions -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Reference -- Appendix -- Have American Workers Always Been Low Savers? Patterns of Accumulation Among Working Households, 1885-1910 -- Introduction -- The State BLS Survey Data on Family Saving -- State BLS Survey Design -- Saving behavior by BLS households -- A Representative Sample? -- A Simulation Model for Household Saving and Wealth Accumulation -- General Simulation Strategy -- Simulating Family Structures -- Simulating Persistent Family Incomes over the Life Cycle -- Simulating Persistent Rates of Saving over the Life Cycle -- Home Equity and Wealth Accumulation over the Life Cycle -- Simulation Results for Wealth Accumulation -- Comparing Historical and Contemporary Distributions of Wealth -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- References -- The Data -- The BLS Surveys -- Measuring Saving -- Estimating Autoregressive Models with Repeated Cross-Section Da. 
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