Paul A. David

Stanford University - Department of Economics

Professor of Economics- Emeritus

Landau Economics Building

579 Serra Mall

Stanford, CA 94305-6072

United States

http://www-econ.stanford.edu/faculty/

University of Oxford - All Souls College

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High Street

Oxford, Oxon. OX1 4AL

United Kingdom

UNU-MERIT (Maastricht)

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Maastricht, TC 6211

Netherlands

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The Historical Origins of 'Open Science': An Essay on Patronage, Reputation and Common Agency Contracting in the Scientific Revolution

Capitalism and Society, Vol. 3, Issue 2, Article 5, 2008
Number of pages: 106 Posted: 30 Jan 2013
Paul A. David
Stanford University - Department of Economics
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open science, new economics of science, evolution of institutions, patronage, asymmetric information, principal-agent problems, common agency contracting, social networks, invisible colleges, scientific academies

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A Statement on the Appropriate Role for Research and Development in Climate Policy

Reg-Markets Center Working Paper No. 08-12
Number of pages: 8 Posted: 13 Dec 2008
Kenneth J. Arrow, Linda R. Cohen, Paul A. David, Robert W. Hahn, Charles D. Kolstad, Lee L. Lane, W. David Montgomery, Richard R. Nelson, Roger G. Noll and Anne E. Smith
Stanford University - Department of Economics, University of California, Irvine - Department of Economics, Stanford University - Department of Economics, Technology Policy Institute, University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) - Department of Economics, American Enterprise Institute (AEI), affiliation not provided to SSRN, Columbia University - School of International & Public Affairs (SIPA), Stanford University - Department of Economics and Marsh & McLennan Companies - Washington, D.C. Office
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May 6th – Signals from a Very Brief but Emblematic Catastrophe on Wall Street

Number of pages: 28 Posted: 31 Jul 2010
Paul A. David
Stanford University - Department of Economics
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stock markets, price volatility, catastrophe theory, positive feedback, high frequency trading, computer-mediated transactions, system governance, regulatory by-pass, disruptive innovation

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Science, Technology and Innovation for Economic Growth: Linking Policy Research and Practice in 'Stig Systems'

Number of pages: 34 Posted: 18 Oct 2008
Philippe Aghion, Paul A. David and Dominique Foray
College de France and London School of Economics and Political Science, Fellow, Stanford University - Department of Economics and Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne - Management of Technology and Entrepreneurship Institute (MTEI)
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The End of Copyright History?

Review of Economic Research on Copyright Issues, Vol. 1, No. 2, pp. 5-10, 2004
Number of pages: 6 Posted: 16 Jun 2008
Paul A. David
Stanford University - Department of Economics
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Copyright, History

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Towards a Cyberinfrastructure for Enhanced Scientific Collaboration: Providing its 'Soft' Foundations May Be the Hardest Part

OII Research Report No. 4
Number of pages: 24 Posted: 10 Jan 2009 Last Revised: 18 Jan 2009
Paul A. David
Stanford University - Department of Economics
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e-Science, cyberinfrastructure, research collaborations, information technology, Grid computing, Grid services, legal institutions, intellectual property rights, inter-organizational contracts

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Restricting Access to Books on the Internet: Some Unanticipated Effects of US Copyright Legislation

Review of Economic Research on Copyright Issues, Vol. 5, No. 1, pp. 23-53, 2008
Number of pages: 31 Posted: 01 Sep 2008
Paul A. David and Jared Rubin
Stanford University - Department of Economics and Chapman University - The George L. Argyros School of Business & Economics
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copyright, books

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Will e-Science Be Open Science?

Number of pages: 15 Posted: 18 Dec 2008 Last Revised: 27 Jun 2010
Paul A. David, Matthijs L. den Besten and Ralph Schroeder
Stanford University - Department of Economics, GSCM-Montpellier Business School and University of Oxford - Oxford Internet Institute
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Community-Based Production of Open Source Software: What Do We Know about the Developers Who Participate?

Number of pages: 71 Posted: 19 Oct 2008 Last Revised: 29 Sep 2013
Paul A. David and Joseph S. Shapiro
Stanford University - Department of Economics and University of California, Berkeley
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Open-source software, FLOSS projects, community-based peer production, population heterogeneity, micro-motives, motivational profiles, web-cast surveys, hierarchical cluster analysis

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The Demography of an Early Mortality Transition: Life Expectancy, Survival and Mortality Rates for Britain’s Royals, 1500‐1799

Number of pages: 55 Posted: 19 Jul 2010 Last Revised: 27 Jun 2021
Paul A. David, S. Ryan Johansson and Andrea Pozzi
Stanford University - Department of Economics, Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure and Einaudi Institute for Economics and Finance (EIEF)
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demographic history, mortality transition, elite populations, medical knowledge

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Is Public R&D a Complement or Substitute for Private R&D? A Review of the Econometric Evidence

NBER Working Paper No. w7373
Number of pages: 72 Posted: 20 Mar 2000 Last Revised: 24 Feb 2022
Paul A. David, Bronwyn H. Hall and Andrew Toole
Stanford University - Department of Economics, University of California at Berkeley and United States Patent and Trademark Office
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The Performance of Distributed Problem Solving Networks: A Final Report on the OII-MTI Project

OII DPSN Working Paper No. 1
Number of pages: 9 Posted: 19 Nov 2008 Last Revised: 03 Dec 2015
William H. Dutton, Paul A. David and Wolf Richter
GCSCC Computer Science University of Oxford, Stanford University - Department of Economics and University of Oxford - Oxford Internet Institute
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internet, distributed problem solving networks, information sharing, digital networks, organizations, coproduction

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Towards Institutional Infrastructures for e-Science: The Scope of the Challenge

OII Research Report No. 2
Number of pages: 98 Posted: 10 Jan 2009 Last Revised: 15 Apr 2009
Paul A. David and Michael J. Spence
Stanford University - Department of Economics and University of Oxford - Faculty of Law
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internet, hardware, software, infrastructure, collaboration, e-science, e-research, scientific research organisations

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Toward an Analytical Framework for the Study of Distributed Problem-Solving Networks

OII DPSN Working Paper No. 2
Number of pages: 11 Posted: 18 Nov 2008 Last Revised: 11 Jan 2009
Paul A. David
Stanford University - Department of Economics
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distributed problem solving networks, internet, network, crowd sourcing, problem solving, organization, knowledge

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Bug-Patching for Mozilla's Firefox

Number of pages: 12 Posted: 25 Mar 2008 Last Revised: 06 Apr 2008
Jean-Michel Dalle, Matthijs L. den Besten, Héla Masmoudi and Paul A. David
Université Paris VI Pierre et Marie Curie, GSCM-Montpellier Business School, Université Paris VI Pierre et Marie Curie and Stanford University - Department of Economics
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Linking Policy Research and Practice in ‘Stig Systems’: Many Obstacles, But Some Ways Forward

CDM Working Papers Series WORKING PAPER-CEMI-2007-002
Number of pages: 30 Posted: 03 Jul 2009
Philippe Aghion, Paul A. David and Dominique Foray
College de France and London School of Economics and Political Science, Fellow, Stanford University - Department of Economics and Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne - Management of Technology and Entrepreneurship Institute (MTEI)
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policy research, innovation, growth policy, system dynamics

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Heart of Darkness: Modeling Public-Private Funding Interactions Inside the R&D Black Box

NBER Working Paper No. w7538
Number of pages: 29 Posted: 05 May 2000 Last Revised: 06 Feb 2022
Paul A. David and Bronwyn H. Hall
Stanford University - Department of Economics and University of California at Berkeley
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Data and Information Access in E-Research: Results from a 2008 Survey Among UK E-Science Project Participants

OII Research Report No. 18
Number of pages: 23 Posted: 08 Jan 2009 Last Revised: 04 Sep 2014
Matthijs L. den Besten and Paul A. David
GSCM-Montpellier Business School and Stanford University - Department of Economics
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e-science, open science, research collaboration

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Mitigating 'Anticommons' Harms to Research in Science and Technology

UNU-MERIT Working Paper No. 2011-001, Analysis and Debate of Intellectual Property Issues, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 23 Posted: 01 Jun 2011
Paul A. David
Stanford University - Department of Economics
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anticommons, R&D, multiple marginalization, IPR licensing, patent hold-ups, royalty stacking, distributed scientific databases, copyright collections societies, contractual commons

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Mapping E-Science's Path in the Collaboration Space: An Ontological Approach to Monitoring Infrastructure Development

Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on e-Social Science
Number of pages: 11 Posted: 10 Jul 2008
Matthijs L. den Besten and Paul A. David
GSCM-Montpellier Business School and Stanford University - Department of Economics
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Dynamics of Innovation in an Open Source Collaboration Environment: Lurking, Laboring, and Launching Floss Projects on Sourceforge

Industrial and Corporate Change, Vol. 17, Issue 4, pp. 647-710, 2008
Posted: 04 Aug 2008
Paul A. David and Francesco Rullani
Stanford University - Department of Economics and Ca Foscari University of Venice, Bliss - Digital Impact Lab

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The Evolving Accidental Information Super-Highway

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The Evolving Accidental Information Super-Highway

Oxford Review of Economic Policy, Vol. 17, Issue 2, pp. 159-187, 2001
Posted: 29 Feb 2008
Paul A. David
Stanford University - Department of Economics

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The Evolving Accidental Information Super-Highway

Posted: 03 Jun 2004
Paul A. David
Stanford University - Department of Economics

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The Explicit Economics of Knowledge Codification and Tacitness

Posted: 20 Nov 2000
Robin Cowan, Paul A. David and Dominique Foray
Maastricht Economic Research Institute on Innovation and Technology (MERIT), Stanford University - Department of Economics and Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne - Management of Technology and Entrepreneurship Institute (MTEI)

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Learning by Accident?: Reductions in the Risk of Unplanned Outages in U.S. Nuclear Power Plants after Three Mile Island

JOURNAL OF RISK AND UNCERTAINTY, Vol. 13, No. 2
Posted: 04 May 1998
Paul A. David, Roland Maude-Griffin and Geoffrey Rothwell
Stanford University - Department of Economics, Stanford University and OECD

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