History Matters: Economic Growth, Technology, and Population

Papers in Honor of Paul A. David

• Moses Abramovitz, Stanford University
    Working with Paul: A Memoir of a Long Collaboration (Pdf)
• Kenneth J. Arrow, Stanford University,
     Path Dependence and Competitive Equilibrium (Pdf)
• Charles Calomiris, Columbia University,
    Financial History and the Long Reach of the Second 30 Years War (Pdf)
• Charles Feinstein, Oxford University, and Mark Thomas, University of Virginia,
     Measuring the Growth of Industrial Production in the UK, 1851-1907 (Pdf)
• Phillip Wonhyuk Lim, Korea Development Institute,
    Path Dependence in Action: The Rise and Fall of the Korean Model of Economic Development (Pdf)
• Peter MancallJoshua Rosenbloom, and Thomas Weiss,University of Kansas,
     Conjectural Estimates of Economic Growth in the Lower South, 1720 to 1800 (Pdf)

• Richard Nelson, Columbia University,
    On the Uneven Evolution of Human Know-How (Pdf)

• Trond Olsen, University of Bergen,
     International Competition for Technology Investments; Implications of National Ownership (Pdf)

• Douglas Puffert, University of Munich,
     Path Dependence, Network Form, and Technological Change (Pdf)
• Roger Ransom and Richard Sutch, UC-Riverside,
     The Decline in Fertility and the Life Cycle Transition in the Antebellum United States (Pdf)
• Melvin Reder, University of Chicago,
     The Tension Between Strong History and Strong Economics (Pdf)
• Paul Rhode, University of North Carolina,
     After the War Boom: Re-conversion on the Pacific Coast, 1943-49 (Pdf)
• Geoffrey Rothwell, Stanford University,
     Standardization, Diversity, and Learning in China's Nuclear Power Program (Pdf)
• Warren Sanderson, SUNY-Stony Brook,
    A User's Guide to the Pleasures and Pitfalls of Cohort Parity Analysis (Pdf)

• Paul Stoneman, University of Warwick,
     Path Dependency and Reswitching in a Model of Multi-technology Adoption (Pdf)

• Peter Temin, Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
    Continuing Confusion: Entry Prices in Telecommunications (Pdf)
• David Weiman, Russell Sage Foundation,
    Building 'Universal Service' in the Early Bell System: The Reciprocal Development of Regional Urban Systems and Long Distance Telephone Networks (Pdf)