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David S. Landes Introduction: On Technology and Growth

I. Technology

Robert W. Fogel The Conquest of High Mortality and Hunger in Europe and America: Timing and Mechanisms

Paul A. David The Hero and the Herd in Technological History: Reflections on Thomas Edison and the Battle of the Systems

Rudolf Braun The "Docile" Body as an Economic-Industrial Growth Factor

Wolfram Fischer The Choice of Technique: Entrepreneurial Decisions in the Nineteenth-Century European Cotton and Steel Industries

Paul Bairoch The City and Technological Innovation

Joel Mokyr Dear Labor, Cheap Labor, and the Industrial Revolution

II. Entrepreneurialism

Robert C. Allen Entrepreneurship, Total Factor Productivity, and Economic Efficiency: Landes, Solow, and Farrell Thirty Years Later

François Crouzet The Huguenots and the English Financial Revolution

William Lazonick What Happened to the Theory of Economic Development?

Jonathan Hughes Public Sector Entrepreneurship

François Jequier Employment Strategies and Production Structures in the Swiss Watchmaking Industry

Peter Temin Entrepreneurs and Managers

III. Paths of Economic Growth

Jeffrey G. Williamson Did England's Cities Grow Too Fast during the Industrial Revolution?

W. W. Rostow Technology and the Economic Theorist: Past, Present, and Future

Alfred D. Chandler, Jr. Creating Competitive Capability: Innovation and Investment in the United States, Great Britain, and Germany from the 1870s to World War I

Anne O. Krueger Benefits and Costs of Late Development

Irma Adelman Prometheus Unbound and Developing Countries

Claudia Goldin Marriage Bars: Discrimination against Married Women Workers from the 1920s to the 1950s

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