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1.
The History of Firearms Magazines and Magazine Prohibitions
Albany Law Review, Vol. 88, 2015, pages 849-884, U Denver Legal Studies Research Paper No. 15-06
Number of pages: 36
Posted: 30 Jul 2014
Last Revised: 21 Mar 2015
Accepted Paper Series
Independence Institute
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A Mark of Distinction: Branding and Trade Mark Law in the UK from the 1860s
Number of pages: 46
Posted: 27 Jul 2009
Last Revised: 22 Oct 2009
Working Paper Series
Independent
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367
3.
More Machines, Better Machines...Or Better Workers?
Number of pages: 49
Posted: 11 Nov 2008
Last Revised: 17 Jan 2015
Working Paper Series
Technology & Policy Research Initiative, BU School of Law
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4.
The 'Overly-Broad' Selden Patent, Henry Ford and Development in the Early US Automobile Industry
Number of pages: 32
Posted: 28 Jun 2016
Working Paper Series
Aarhus University and Bi-Level Technologies
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5.
Accounting for Productivity Growth When Technical Change is Biased
Research on Innovation Working Paper No. 0802
Number of pages: 35
Posted: 06 Feb 2009
Last Revised: 17 Jan 2015
Working Paper Series
Technology & Policy Research Initiative, BU School of Law
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The Skills of the Unskilled in the American Industrial Revolution
Research on Innovation Working Paper
Number of pages: 51
Posted: 08 Nov 2000
Working Paper Series
Technology & Policy Research Initiative, BU School of Law
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203
7.
The Lost History of Delegation at the Founding
Number of pages: 51
Posted: 03 Aug 2020
Last Revised: 13 Dec 2020
Working Paper Series
Loyola University Chicago School of Law
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8.
Exclusive Rights Stimulate Design-Around: How Circumventing Edison’s Lamp Patent Promoted Competition and New Technology Development
Number of pages: 46
Posted: 11 Jul 2014
Last Revised: 08 Sep 2020
Working Paper Series
Bi-Level Technologies and Aarhus University
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9.
When Does Economic Experimentation Matter? Finding the Pivot in the Early History of the Automobile Industry
Number of pages: 45
Posted: 11 Jul 2018
Working Paper Series
University of Maryland, University of Maryland - Robert H. Smith School of Business and University of Maryland
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10.
Skyscraper Height and the Business Cycle: Separating Myth from Reality, a Comment
Number of pages: 10
Posted: 20 Aug 2015
Last Revised: 27 Oct 2015
Working Paper Series
Kent State University - Stark and Ludwig von Mises Institute
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11.
The Origins of American Industrial Success: Evidence from the US Portland Cement Industry
Number of pages: 39
Posted: 18 Oct 2008
Working Paper Series
Infrastructure Victoria
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12.
Sectoral Shift in Antebellum Massachusetts: A Reconsideration
Explorations in Economic History, Vol. 15, No. 2, 1978
Number of pages: 26
Posted: 20 Mar 2008
Accepted Paper Series
Santa Clara University - Leavey School of Business - Economics Department
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13.
The Effects of Alternative Regional Delineations on Historical Interpretation
Economic Forum, Volume XII, Winter 1981-1982
Number of pages: 7
Posted: 15 Aug 2012
Accepted Paper Series
Pepperdine University - Economics Department
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14.
On the Unimportance of Machinery
Explorations in Economic History, Vol. 22, No. 4, 1985
Number of pages: 24
Posted: 20 Mar 2008
Accepted Paper Series
Santa Clara University - Leavey School of Business - Economics Department
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15.
Not What it Used to Be: The Cambridge Economic History of the United States, Volumes II and III
Journal of Economic History, No. 61, pp. 806-818, September 2001
Number of pages: 13
Posted: 30 Apr 2008
Accepted Paper Series
Santa Clara University - Leavey School of Business - Economics Department
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16.
Educational Expansion in Mid-Nineteenth Century Massachusetts: Human Capital Formation or Structural Reinforcement?
Harvard Educational Review, Vol. 46, pp. 521-552, November 1976
Number of pages: 32
Posted: 01 May 2008
Accepted Paper Series
Santa Clara University - Leavey School of Business - Economics Department
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Railroads, Reallocation, and the Rise of American Manufacturing
University of Chicago, Becker Friedman Institute for Economics Working Paper No. 2019-146
Number of pages: 76
Posted: 02 Jan 2020
Working Paper Series
University of Chicago - Booth School of Business and New York University (NYU)
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Railroads, Reallocation, and the Rise of American Manufacturing
University of Chicago, Becker Friedman Institute for Economics Working Paper No. 2019-146
Number of pages: 76
Posted: 02 Jan 2020
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Railroads, Reallocation, and the Rise of American Manufacturing
NBER Working Paper No. w26594
Number of pages: 76
Posted: 31 Dec 2019
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18.
Historical Perspective (of the Chesapeake Bay)
Prof. Garrett Power, CHESAPEAKE BAY IN LEGAL PERSPECTIVE, Part 1, pp. 5-80, Washington, DC: U.S. Dept. of the Interior, March 1970
Number of pages: 110
Posted: 29 Oct 2009
Accepted Paper Series
University of Baltimore - School of Law
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19.
Rust Buckets: How the Jones Act Undermines U.S. Shipbuilding and National Security
Cato Institute Policy Analysis No. 882
Number of pages: 24
Posted: 05 Dec 2019
Accepted Paper Series
Cato Institute
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People and Machines: A Look at the Evolving Relationship between Capital and Skill in Manufacturing 1860-1930 Using Immigration Shocks
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9217
Number of pages: 96
Posted: 04 Sep 2015
Working Paper Series
University of Maryland - College Park, Business School, Pontificia Universidad Católica and Dartmouth College - Department of Economics
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21.
The Twelfth Engine: A Confluence of Business Perspectives
Number of pages: 34
Posted: 19 Sep 2019
Last Revised: 10 Dec 2020
Working Paper Series
Curtis, Mallet-Prevost, Colt & Mosle LLP
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22.
Merging the 21st Century into a Gilded Age, Fortune 500 Boardroom
This article describes the replication and installation of embossed gilded leather in the Metlife boardroom in New York City, which was first decorated with leather in 1894. The paper was presented at the 9th North American Textile Conservation Conference in San Francisco in 2013.
Number of pages: 15
Posted: 05 Sep 2019
Accepted Paper Series
Independent and ArtCare Resources, LLC
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The Twelfth Engine: Tracks of the Mohegan
Number of pages: 22
Posted: 17 Sep 2019
Last Revised: 10 Dec 2020
Working Paper Series
Curtis, Mallet-Prevost, Colt & Mosle LLP
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Toward A History of Canadian Wallpaper Use: Mechanization 1860-1935
Kelly, R. M. (2015). Toward A History of Canadian Wallpaper Use: Mechanization 1860-1935 . Material Culture Review, 80
Number of pages: 21
Posted: 05 Sep 2019
Accepted Paper Series
Independent
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150 Years of American Invention: Methodology and a First Geographical Application
Wellesley College Working Paper 99-01
Posted: 27 Jan 1999
Working Paper Series
Colorado College - Department of Economics and Business
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A Theoretical Basis for 19th Century Changes to the Port of New York Imported Goods Auction
Posted: 27 Jun 2000
Accepted Paper Series
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign - Department of Business Administration and Allegheny College - Department of Economics
There are 2 versions of this paper
A Theoretical Basis for 19th Century Changes to the Port of New York Imported Goods Auction
Posted: 27 Jun 2000
A Theoretical Basis for 19th Century Changes to the Port of New York Imported Goods Auction
University of Illinois, Bureau of Economics & Business Research Working Paper No. 98-0119
Posted: 04 Mar 1999
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Corporate Learning and Quality Control at the Bell System, 1877-1929
Business History Review, Vol. 79, pp. 39-72, Spring 2005
Posted: 07 May 2006
Accepted Paper Series
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey - Accounting & Information Systems
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Corporation Nation: Rise and Demise of the American Economic Juggernaut
Posted: 29 May 2011
Working Paper Series
Paul Coverdell Distinguished Visiting Fellow of Policy Studies
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The Beet Sugar Entrepreneurs of Antebellum America: An Industry's Failure and an Economy's Success
Posted: 30 Oct 2006
Working Paper Series
Paul Coverdell Distinguished Visiting Fellow of Policy Studies
30.
The Evolution of Plant Size in Canadian Manufacturing, 1870-1910
Canadian Historical Review, Vol. 75, pp. 557-585, 1994
Posted: 18 Jan 2010
Accepted Paper Series
University of Dundee
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The Private Provision of Transportation Infrastructure in Antebellum America: Lessons and Warnings
Posted: 07 Feb 2009
Working Paper Series
Paul Coverdell Distinguished Visiting Fellow of Policy Studies and Baruch College Department of History
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