作者：Hitotsubashi University; National Bureau of Economic Research
作者：University of Cambridge
摘要：This study uses evidence from central Europe to address open questions about the Consumer and Industrious Revolutions. Did they happen outside the North Atlantic economies? Were they shaped by the social capital of traditional institutions? How were they affected by social constraints on women? It finds that people in central Europe did desire to increase market work and consumption. But elites used the social capital of traditional institutions to oppose new work and consumption practices, es...
作者：Pompeu Fabra University; Centre de Recerca en Economia Internacional (CREI); University of Chicago
作者：University of London; London School Economics & Political Science
作者：Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
作者：University of California System; University of California Davis
作者：Stanford University
摘要：Using the records of British firms that supplied nearly 90 percent of world trade in cotton spinning machinery, we track the evolution and diffusion of spinning technology over more than 50 years. In contrast to scenarios in which modern technologies supplant older methods, we observe two paradigms in competitive coexistence, each one supporting ongoing productivity growth through complementary improvements in machinery, organization, and workforce skills. International productivity difference...
