State Capacity and American Technology: Evidence from the Nineteenth Century

Robert Gordon's The Rise and Fall of American Economic Growth compellingly shows how technical innovation, stimulated by the country's institutions, has radically improved the living standards of the citizens of the US. We conduct an empirical investigation of the impact of the capacity of...

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Main Authors: Acemoglu, K. Daron, Moscona, Jacob, Robinson, James
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Economics
Format: Article
Published: American Economic Association 2018
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/113697
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0908-7491