Measuring Our Ignorance, One Book at a Time: New Indicators of Technological Change, 1909-1949
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- Alexopoulos, Michelle & Cohen, Jon, 2009. "Measuring our ignorance, one book at a time: New indicators of technological change, 1909-1949," Journal of Monetary Economics, Elsevier, vol. 56(4), pages 450-470, May.
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Keywords
Technical Change; Productivity; the Great Depression;JEL classification:
- E3 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Prices, Business Fluctuations, and Cycles
- O3 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Innovation; Research and Development; Technological Change; Intellectual Property Rights
- O4 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Growth and Aggregate Productivity
- N1 - Economic History - - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics; Industrial Structure; Growth; Fluctuations
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-ENE-2009-03-07 (Energy Economics)
- NEP-HIS-2009-03-07 (Business, Economic & Financial History)
- NEP-MAC-2009-03-07 (Macroeconomics)
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