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...
| Други автори: | Field, Alexander J., Clark, Gregory, 1957-, Sundstrom, William Andrew. |
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| Формат: | Електронна книга |
| Език: | English |
| Публикувано: |
Amsterdam ; Oxford :
Elsevier JAI,
2005.
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Research in economic history. Vol. 23. |
Съдържание:
- 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.