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.
Temas:
Economic history.
Histoire économique.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Economic Conditions.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Economics > Comparative.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Economic Conditions.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Economic History.
Economic history
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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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