Inventive Activity and the Market for Technology in the United States, 1840-1920

Name
Inventive Activity and the Market for Technology in the United States, 1840-1920
Cite
Working Paper 7107; http://www.nber.org/papers/w7107
Year
1999
Bluebook cite
Naomi R. Lamoreaux and Kenneth L. Sokoloff, "Inventive Activity and the Market for Technology in the United States, 1840-1920" (paper, National Bureau of Economic Research, May 1999), http://www.nber.org/papers/w7107, accessed June 17, 2011.
Author
Naomi R. Lamoreaux and Kenneth L. Sokoloff
URL
http://www.nber.org/papers/w7107
Item Type
article
Summary
Paper relies on patent records to discuss the accelerated rate of inventions that occurred over the course of the nineteenth century. Argues that the nineteenth century market evolved to accommodate technology, thereby encouraging such developments.

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