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Computers and growth with frictions: aggregate and disaggregate evidence A comment 计算机与摩擦中的增长:聚合证据与分解证据评论

Carnegie-Rochester Conference Series on Public Policy Pub Date : 2001-12-01 DOI: 10.1016/S0167-2231(01)00057-4

Andreas Hornstein

引用次数: 1

Editorial advisory board 编辑顾问委员会

Carnegie-Rochester Conference Series on Public Policy Pub Date : 2001-12-01 DOI: 10.1016/S0167-2231(01)80001-4

引用次数: 0

Computers and growth with frictions: aggregate and disaggregate evidence 计算机与增长的摩擦:聚合与分解证据

Carnegie-Rochester Conference Series on Public Policy Pub Date : 2001-12-01 DOI: 10.1016/S0167-2231(01)00056-2

Michael T Kiley

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引用次数: 58

A quantitative model of the British industrial revolution, 1780–1850 a comment 英国工业革命的定量模型，1780-1850年

Carnegie-Rochester Conference Series on Public Policy Pub Date : 2001-12-01 DOI: 10.1016/S0167-2231(01)00053-7

John Laitner

引用次数: 28

Productivity growth in the 1990s: technology, utilization, or adjustment? A comment 20世纪90年代的生产率增长:技术、利用还是调整?一个评论

Carnegie-Rochester Conference Series on Public Policy Pub Date : 2001-12-01 DOI: 10.1016/S0167-2231(01)00055-0

Robert E Hall

引用次数: 2

Searching for prosperity 寻找繁荣

Carnegie-Rochester Conference Series on Public Policy Pub Date : 2001-12-01 DOI: 10.1016/S0167-2231(01)00060-4

Michael Kremer, Alexei Onatski, James Stock

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引用次数: 139

Searching for prosperity a comment 寻找繁荣的评论

Carnegie-Rochester Conference Series on Public Policy Pub Date : 2001-12-01 DOI: 10.1016/S0167-2231(01)00061-6

Danny Quah

引用次数: 44

The rise and fall of the factory system: technology, firms, and households since the industrial revolution A comment 工厂制度的兴衰:工业革命以来的技术、企业和家庭评论

Carnegie-Rochester Conference Series on Public Policy Pub Date : 2001-12-01 DOI: 10.1016/S0167-2231(01)80002-6

John McDermott

引用次数: 0

The rise and fall of the factory system: technology, firms, and households since the industrial revolution A comment 工厂制度的兴衰:工业革命以来的技术、企业和家庭评论

Carnegie-Rochester Conference Series on Public Policy Pub Date : 2001-12-01 DOI: 10.1016/S0167-2231(01)00050-1

J. Mcdermott

引用次数: 59

The rise and fall of the factory system: technology, firms, and households since the industrial revolution 工厂制度的兴衰:工业革命以来的技术、企业和家庭

Carnegie-Rochester Conference Series on Public Policy Pub Date : 2001-12-01 DOI: 10.1016/S0167-2231(01)00050-1

Joel Mokyr

引用次数: 59