History matters
Subtitle: essays on economic growth, technology, and demographic change
By: edited by Timothy W. Guinnane, William A. Sundstrom, and Warren Whatley.
Contributors: Guinnane, Timothy.; Sundstrom, William Andrew.; Whatley, Warren C.
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Stanford, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 510
Subjects: Economic history -- Congresses; Economic history -- Methodology -- Congresses; Economic development -- Congresses; Technological innovations -- Economic aspects -- Congresses; Population -- Economic aspects -- Congresses
Genres: Congresses.
Description: xiv, 510 p. : 24 cm
Notes: "The essays collected in this volume were, with two exceptions, presented at a conference in honor of Professor Paul A. David, held at Stanford University on June 2-3, 2000. The conference was sponsored by the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR)"--P. [xiii].

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Path dependence and competitive equilibrium / Kenneth J. Arrow; title: Path dependence and reswitching in a model of multi-technology adoption / Paul Stoneman; title: Path dependence, network form, and technological change / Douglas J. Puffert; title: The tension between strong history and strong economics / Melvin W. Reder; title: Financial history and the long reach of the second Thirty-years' war / Charles W. Calomiris; title: Path dependence in action : the adoption and persistence of the Korean model of economic development / Phillip Wonhyuk Lim; title: Continuing confusion : entry prices in telecommunications / Peter Temin; title: After the war boom : reconversion on the Pacific coast, 1943-1949 / Paul W. Rhode; title: Standardization, diversity, and learning in China's nuclear power program / Geoffrey Rothwell; title: Incentives, information, and welfare : England's new poor law and the workhouse test / Timothy Besley, Stephen Coate, and Timothy W. Guinnane; title: Family matters : the life-cycle transition and the antebellum American fertility decline / Susan B. Carter, Roger L. Ransom, and Richard Sutch; title: Building "universal service" in the early Bell system : the coevolution of regional urban systems and long-distance telephone networks / David F. Weiman; title: International competition for technology investments : does national ownership matter? / Trond E. Olsen; title: Conjectural estimates of economic growth in the lower south, 1720 to 1800 / Peter C. Mancall, Joshua L. Rosenbloom, and Thomas Weiss; title: The value-added approach to the measurement of economic growth / Mark Thomas and Charles Feinstein; title: A user's guide to the joys and pitfalls of cohort parity analysis / Warren C. Sanderson; title: Stochastic dynamic optimization models with random effects in parameters : an application to age at marriage and life-cycle fertility control in France under the old regime / Thomas A. Mroz and David R. Weir.