“The Mechanization of Reaping and Mowing in American Agriculture, 1833–1870”: Comment

Jones, Lewis Ralph

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“…Such a proposition is found to have empirical validity with respect to the diffusion of a number of important innovations, for instance, of hybrid corn (Ryan and Gross, 1943;Griliches, 1957) in US; of agricultural reapers and mowers in US and Canada (David,1966(David, , 1971Pomfret, 1976;Jones, 1977;Atack and Bateman, 1987;Headlee, 1991); major innovations in heavy equipment in US . Conversely, one of the empirical regularities derived from empirical research on diffusion, that the diffusion path often follows a Sigmoid path, has been consistently explained by the probit models of diffusion (Davies, 1979;Karshenas and Stoneman, 1993).…”

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Technological Diffusion: Alternative Theories and Historical Evidence

Sarkar

1998

Journal of Economic Surveys

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This paper presents an interpretive survey of the neoclassical and evolutionary approaches to modeling the process of technological diffusion, with an orientation that is distinct in two important respects from existing surveys. First, the present survey is designed to provide a comparative overview of the alternative approaches within a unified framework of analysis. The objective is to bring out the areas of convergence as well as divergence between the approaches, and address the issue of whether the approaches could be considered as complementary rather than as alternatives. Second, the survey attempts to link the theoretical methodologies to the variety of empirical and historical evidence, and evaluate how the theories best fit the evidence on the dynamics of the technological diffusion process.

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Technological Diffusion: Alternative Theories and Historical Evidence

Sarkar

1998

Journal of Economic Surveys

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“…el desfase existente entre la invencion de la cosechadora mecanica y su aplicacion agricola a gran escala es el de Paul David (1975). V6anse tambien las criticas a este trabajo de Olmstead (1975) y Jones (1977).…”

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Extraccion de trabajo y cambio tecnico: el caso de la fabrica McCormick de Chicago, 1880–1900

Toharia

1984

RHE / JILAEH

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Según la teoría económica dominante, la teoría neoclásica, la única razón que explica la introducción de nuevas técnicas en el proceso productivo es que éstas son más eficientes o productivas que las conocidas hasta la fecha. Las razones por las que aparecen esas nuevas técnicas pertenecen a don^mios extraeconómicos, es decir, las variables económicas no se consideran un factor relevante en dicha aparición. Por otra parte, los escritos recientes de algunos autores pertenecientes a la línea de pensamiento mar:üsta, de entre los que destaca Stephen Marglin (1974), parecen haber sostenido que la introducción de cambios técnicos, y más concretamente de la división del trabajo, responde a un deseo por parte de los capitalistas de controlar me,or a sus obreros más que a razones de eficiencia productiva En este articulo partimos de un enfoque teórico que pone de relieve que la «eficiencia* y el «control* "o son variables contradictorias, sino complen^entanas.

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Mechanizing cotton production in the American south: The tractor, 1915–1960

Musoke

1981

Explorations in Economic History

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“The Mechanization of Reaping and Mowing in American Agriculture, 1833–1870”: Comment

Cited by 4 publications

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Technological Diffusion: Alternative Theories and Historical Evidence

Technological Diffusion: Alternative Theories and Historical Evidence

Extraccion de trabajo y cambio tecnico: el caso de la fabrica McCormick de Chicago, 1880–1900

Mechanizing cotton production in the American south: The tractor, 1915–1960

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