Table of Contents for History Matters
Table of Contents for History Matters
Editors’ Introduction, by Timothy W. Guinnane, William A. Sundstrom, and Warren Whatley
Part I.Why History Matters:Path Dependence and Economic Thought
Chapter 1.Path Dependence and Competitive Equilibrium, by Kenneth J. Arrow
Chapter 2.Path Dependence and Reswitching in a Model of Multi-Technology Adoption, by Paul Stoneman
Chapter 3.Path Dependence, Network Form, and Technological Change, by Douglas J. Puffert
Chapter 4.The Tension between Strong History and Strong Economics, by Melvin W. Reder
Part II. Path Dependence in Practice
Chapter 5.Financial History and the Long Reach of the Second Thirty-Years’ War, by Charles W. Calomiris
Chapter 6.Path Dependence in Action:The Adoption and Persistence of the Korean Model of Economic Development, by Phillip Wonhyuk Lim
Chapter 7. Continuing Confusion: Entry Prices in Telecommunications, by Peter Temin
Chapter 8.After the War Boom:Reconversion on the Pacific Coast, 1943-1949, by Paul W. Rhode
Chapter 9.Standardization, Diversity, and Learning in China’s Nuclear Power Program, by Geoffrey Rothwell
Part III.Context Matters:The Influence of Culture, Geography, and Political Institutions on Economies and Policies
Chapter 10.Incentives, Information, and Welfare:England’s New Poor Law and the Workhouse Test, by Timothy Besley, Stephen Coate, and Timothy W. Guinnane
Chapter 11.Family Matters:The Life-Cycle Transition and the Antebellum American Fertility Decline, by Susan B. Carter, Roger L. Ransom, and Richard Sutch
Chapter 12.Building “Universal Service” in the Early Bell System:The Coevolution of Regional Urban Systems and Long-Distance Telephone Networks, by David F. Weiman
Chapter 13.International Competition for Technology Investments:Does National Ownership Matter?, by Trond E. Olsen
Part IV.Evidence Matters:Measuring Historical Economic Growth and Demographic Change
Chapter 14.Conjectural Estimates of Economic Growth in the Lower South, 1720 to 1800, by Peter C. Mancall, Joshua L. Rosenbloom, and Thomas Weiss
Chapter 15.The Value-Added Approach to the Measurement of Economic Growth, by Mark Thomas and Charles Feinstein
Chapter 16.A User’s Guide to the Joys and Pitfulls of Cohort Parity Analysis, by Warren C. Sanderson
Chapter 17.Stochastic Dynamic Optimization Models with Random Effects in Parameters:An Application to the Age at Marriage and Life-Cycle Fertility Control in France Under the Old Regime, by Thomas A. Mroz and David R. Weir