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Patrice Higonnet is Robert Walton Goelet Professor of French History at Harvard University. David S. Landes was Coolidge Professor of History and Professor of Economics, Emeritus, Harvard University, and the author of The Wealth and Poverty of Nations. Henry Rosovsky was the Lewis P. and Linda L. Geyser University Professor Emeritus at Harvard University.

A stimulating and fascinating volume that should be in the library of anyone interested in economic history or technology.

• David S. Landes Introduction: On Technology and Growth I. Technology Robert W. Fogel The Conquest of High Mortality and Hunger in Europe and America: Timing and Mechanisms Paul A. David The Hero and the Herd in Technological History: Reflections on Thomas Edison and the Battle of the Systems Rudolf Braun The "Docile" Body as an Economic-Industrial Growth Factor Wolfram Fischer The Choice of Technique: Entrepreneurial Decisions in the Nineteenth-Century European Cotton and Steel Industries Paul Bairoch The City and Technological Innovation Joel Mokyr Dear Labor, Cheap Labor, and the Industrial Revolution II. Entrepreneurialism Robert C. Allen Entrepreneurship, Total Factor Productivity, and Economic Efficiency: Landes, Solow, and Farrell Thirty Years Later Francois Crouzet The Huguenots and the English Financial Revolution William Lazonick What Happened to the Theory of Economic Development? Jonathan Hughes Public Sector Entrepreneurship Francois Jequier Employment Strategies and ProductionStructures in the Swiss Watchmaking Industry Peter Temin Entrepreneurs and Managers III. Paths of Economic Growth Jeffrey G. Williamson Did England's Cities Grow Too Fast during the Industrial Revolution? W. W. Rostow Technology and the Economic Theorist: Past, Present, and Future Alfred D. Chandler, Jr. Creating Competitive Capability: Innovation and Investment in the United States, Great Britain, and Germany from the 1870s to World War I Anne O. Krueger Benefits and Costs of Late Development Irma Adelman Prometheus Unbound and Developing Countries Claudia Goldin Marriage Bars: Discrimination against Married Women Workers from the 1920s to the 1950s Contributors Index