作者：University of California System; University of California Los Angeles; National Bureau of Economic Research
摘要：The growth in inventive activity during early American industrialization is explored by examining the careers of 160 inventors credited with important technological discoveries. Analysis of biographical information and complete patent histories through 1865 indicates that these ''great inventors'' were entrepreneurial and responded systematically to market demand. Their inventions were procyclical and originated disproportionately from localities linked with extensive markets. Although unexcep...
作者：SUSSMAN, N
摘要：Historians of the period have generally played down the debasement of France's coinage to increase crown revenues during the Hundred Years' War or treated it as a last resort and an inept one. Based on archival data and an analytical framework drawn from the modem literature on inflation tax, this article supports challengers of that view, showing that debasement was an effective instrument of public finance.
