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• The Invention of Enterprise: Entrepreneurship from Ancient Mesopotamia to Modern Times. AI翻译
  作者：Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
• Reflections on the Cliometrics Revolution: Conversations with Economic Historians. AI翻译
  作者：Wake Forest University
• Ottoman State Finances in European Perspective, 1500-1914 AI翻译
  作者：Bogazici University; University of London; London School Economics & Political Science
  摘要：The early modern era witnessed the formation across Europe of centralized states that captured increasing shares of resources as taxes. These states not only enjoyed greater capacity to deal with domestic and external challenges, they were also able to shield their economies better against wars. This article examines the Ottoman experience with fiscal centralization using recently compiled evidence from budgets. It shows that due to high shares of intermediaries, Ottoman revenues lagged behind...
• The Wealth of Wives: Women, Law, and Economy in Late Medieval London. AI翻译
  作者：Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
• Structures of Change in the Mechanical Age: Technological Innovation in the United States, 1790-1865. AI翻译
  作者：University of California System; University of California Davis
• National Leadership and Competing Technological Paradigms: The Globalization of Cotton Spinning, 1878-1933 AI翻译
  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...
• The Procyclical Behavior of Total Factor Productivity in the United States, 1890-2004 AI翻译
  作者：Field, Alexander J.
• Asymmetric Information, Market Power, and the Underpricing of New Stock Issues in Germany, 1882-1892 AI翻译
  作者：Johns Hopkins University
  摘要：Investors in new stock issues in Germany in the 1880s experienced low spreads between the price they paid for stock and the price at which they could sell the stock in the market. Stock issuing companies paid substantial fees to underwriting banks, and these costs increased with the underwriter's market share. Bank's faced lower issuing costs than did nonfinancial firms. These patterns are consistent with a situation in which underwriters exploited their access to better information (agency pr...