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050 4 |a HC21  |b .R47eb vol. 23 
245 0 0 |a Research in economic history.  |c edited by Alexander J. Field ; co-edited by Gregory Clark, William A. Sundstrom. 
260 |a Amsterdam ;  |b Elsevier JAI,  |c 2005.  |a Oxford : 
300 |a 1 online resource (1 volume) 
500 |a "ISSN 0363-3268." 
504 |a Includes bibliographical references. 
505 0 |a Cover -- Contents -- List of Contributors -- Introduction -- A Soviet Quasi-Market for Inventions: Jet Propulsion, 1932-1946 -- Introduction -- The Problem of Jet Propulsion -- Scale and Scope -- Dictator, Army, and Industry in a Quasi-Market -- Action and Reaction -- Established Designers -- Citizen Initiatives -- Foreign Specialists -- The Foreign Press -- Foreign Commercial Information -- Refinancing -- Project Evaluation and Soft Budget Constraints -- The Secondary Asset Market -- Closing the Quasi-Market for Inventions -- Payoffs, Reputation, and Enforcement -- Conclusions -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Official Papers -- Publications -- Network Quality in the Early Telegraph Industry -- A Brief History of the Telegraph -- Telegraph Quality -- Telegraph Demand -- Incentives and Network Quality -- The Telegraph Network -- Double Marginalization in Price and Quality -- Inter-Firm Monitoring -- Competition -- Intra-Firm Monitoring and Integration -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- References -- Major Telegraph Companies -- Telegraph Organization Membership, Approximate Dates of Operation, and Approximate Miles of Wire -- Telegraph Companies Proposed for O'Reilly's Atlantic, Lake and Mississippi Company: 1846-1849 -- Telegraph Companies in Reid's National System: 1849-1856 -- Telegraph Companies in the Cornell/Speed/Wade System: 1853-1856 -- Telegraph Companies in The American Telegraph Confederation: 1853-1856 -- Telegraph Companies in the Six Party Contract or Treaty of Six Nations: 1857 -- The Spanish Infrastructure Stock, 1844-1935 -- Introduction -- The New Series of Spanish Infrastructure Stock and Investment: Estimation Method -- The Gross Investment Series -- Assumptions on the Useful Life and Efficiency Decay of Infrastructure -- Estimation Outcomes and Sensitivity Analysis -- The Evolution of Spanish Infrastructure Before the Civil War -- Infrastructure Investment, 1845-1935 -- The Spanish Infrastructure Stock -- Conclusions -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Reference -- Appendix -- Have American Workers Always Been Low Savers? Patterns of Accumulation Among Working Households, 1885-1910 -- Introduction -- The State BLS Survey Data on Family Saving -- State BLS Survey Design -- Saving behavior by BLS households -- A Representative Sample? -- A Simulation Model for Household Saving and Wealth Accumulation -- General Simulation Strategy -- Simulating Family Structures -- Simulating Persistent Family Incomes over the Life Cycle -- Simulating Persistent Rates of Saving over the Life Cycle -- Home Equity and Wealth Accumulation over the Life Cycle -- Simulation Results for Wealth Accumulation -- Comparing Historical and Contemporary Distributions of Wealth -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- References -- The Data -- The BLS Surveys -- Measuring Saving -- Estimating Autoregressive Models with Repeated Cross-Section Da. 
650 0 |a Economic history. 
650 4 |a a Economic history 
650 4 |a Economic history. 
650 7 |a POLITICAL SCIENCE  |x Economic Conditions. 
650 7 |a BUSINESS & ECONOMICS  |x Economics  |x Comparative. 
650 7 |a BUSINESS & ECONOMICS  |x Economic Conditions. 
650 7 |a BUSINESS & ECONOMICS  |x Economic History. 
700 1 |a Clark, Gregory, 
856 4 0 |a Sundstrom, William Andrew.  |u http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=166905 
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