Kenneth L Sokoloff
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 744147 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Kenneth L Sokoloff |
| NOMBRES | Kenneth L |
| APELLIDO | Sokoloff |
| FIRMA | SOKOLOFF K L |
| AFILIACIONES | National Bureau of Economic Research |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 26 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 602 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 26 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1982 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2013 |
| ÍNDICE H | 11 |
Patent Alchemy
The literature on inventors has traditionally focused on entrepreneurs who exploited their ideas in their own businesses and on researchers who worked in large firms' R&D laboratories. For most of US history, however, it was as common for inventors to profit from their ideas by selling off or licensing the patent rights. This article traces the different ways in which inventors resolved the information problems involved in marketing their patents…
Colonisation and Development
This paper describes the nature of European colonisation, particularly of the Americas, in the period from the 16th to the 19th centuries. It details the importance of slaves purchased from Africa in the settlement process. Although Spain was the first major European coloniser, its importance was supplanted over time by the British
Debating the Role of Institutions in Political and Economic Development
This essay examines the recent use of the concept of institutions in economics and political science, and the impact of institutions on economic growth and democracy. The discussion includes the definition of institutions, the question of endogenous and exogenous origins of institutions, the role of fixed and flexible institutions, and the relations among different types of institutions. Particular attention is given to recent books by Avner Grei…
Mobilizing Venture Capital during the Second Industrial Revolution
During the Second Industrial Revolution of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Midwestern cities were important centers of innovation. Cleveland, the focus of this study, led in the development of a number of key industries, including electric light and power, steel, petroleum, chemicals, and automobiles, and was a hotbed of high-tech startups, much like Silicon Valley today. In an era when production and invention were increasingl…
Slavery in the Development of the Americas
Developing an Identity
Factor Endowments, Inequality, and Paths of Development Among New World Economics
Whereas traditional explanations of differences in long-run paths of development across the Americas generally point to the significance of differences in national heritage or religion, we highlight the relevance of stark contrasts in the degree of inequality in wealth, human capital, and political power in accounting for how fundamental economic institutions evolved over time.We argue, moreover, that the roots of these disparities in the extent …
The Evolution of Suffrage Institutions in the New World
Extreme variation in the extent of inequality emerged early across the New World colonies established by the Europeans, and we hypothesized in previous work that these contrasts persisted over time through systematic differences in the ability and inclination of elites to shape legal frameworks to advantage themselves. We find support for this view in how the rules governing the extension of suffrage evolved over time within the United States, an…
History Lessons
The U.S. was a pioneer in establishing the world's first modern intellectual property system. That system was distinguished by the provision of broad access to, and strict enforcement of, property rights in new inventions, coupled with the requirement of public disclosure, and it was effective at stimulating the growth of a market for technology and technical change more generally. Far from being static, fundamental modifications were introduced …
The Geography of Invention in the American Glass Industry, 1870–1925
Geographic clustering in inventive activity has often been attributed to clustering in production. For the glass industiy, we find that despite a general association between location of invention and production, there were significant deviations. Centers of production were not always centers of invention, and some of the most inventive areas, such as southern New England, had very limited production. We hypothesize that the growth of a market for…
History Lessons
The explanations offered for the contrasting records of long-run growth and development among the societies of North and South America most often focus on institutions. The traditional explanations for the sources of these differences in institutions, typically highlight the significance of national heritage or religion. We, in contrast, argue that a hemispheric perspective across the wide range of colonies established in the New World by the Eur…
Factor Endowments, Institutions, and Differential Paths of Growth Among New World Economies
10. Factor Endowments, Institutions, and Differential Paths of Growth Among New World Economies: A View from Economic Historians of the United States was published in How Latin America Fell Behind on page 260.
Manufacturing Where Agriculture Predominates
Agricultural Seasonalily and the Organization of Manufacturing in Early Industrial Economies
The greater flexibility associated with workers being able to choose the time and circumstance of their work allowed cottage manufacture to compete with technically more productive manufactories by rendering it more effective at harnessing a part time or offpeak workforce whose opportunity cost was low. Not only did this mean that cottage manufacture was better suited to the employment of women and children, who preferred flexibility in their hou…
Stature, Living Conditions, and Economic Development
Preface by John Komlos Introduction: Growth in Height as a Mirror of the Standard of Living, James M. Tanner 1: The Heights of Europeans since 1750: A New Source for European Economic History Roderick Floud 2: The Height of Schoolchildren in Britain, 1900-1950 Bernard Harris 3: The Heights of the British and the Irish c. 1800-1815: Evidence from Recruits to the East India Company's Army Joel Mokyr, Cormac O Grada. 4: The Standard of Living in Sco…
The Role of the State in Taiwan's Development
Patterns of productivity growth in South Korean manufacturing industries, 1963–1979
The Democratization of Invention During Early Industrialization
The skills and knowledge necessary for patentable invention during early American industrialization were widely dispersed among the general population. This endowment permitted a rather elastic supply of patentable ideas over the relevant range as the expansion of markets induced more individuals to invent and innovate.Although a broadening of the ranks of patentees was primarily responsible for the initial acceleration of patenting, the importan…
Inventive Activity in Early Industrial America
A sample of patent records from the United States between 1790 and 1846 is employed to study the patterns in inventive activity. Patenting was pro-cyclical, and yet began to grow rapidly with the interruptions in foreign trade that preceded the War of 1812. A strong association between patenting and proximity to navigable waterways is also demonstrated. Although the importance of specific mechanisms remains unclear, both the temporal and cross-se…
Proprietary Capitalism
Journal Article Proprietary Capitalism: The Textile Manufacture at Philadelphia, 1800–1885. By Philip Scranton. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1983. xiii + 431 pp. Maps, illustrations, tables, notes, and index. $34.50.) Get access Kenneth L. Sokoloff Kenneth L. Sokoloff California Institute of Technology and University of California, Los Angeles Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American …
Investment in Fixed and Working Capital During Early Industrialization
This paper utilizes a survey of U. S. manufacturing firms from 1832 to investigate the structure of manufacturing investment during early industrialization. The relative magnitudes of investments in fixed and working capital, and how they varied with firm size, location, and industry, are documented. This variation across industries in the composition of capital investments is indicative of a more general variation in factor intensities, and bear…
Was the transition from the artisanal shop to the nonmechanized factory associated with gains in efficiency
Secular Changes in American and British Stature and Nutrition
Robert W. Fogel, Stanley L. Engerman, Roderick Floud, Gerald Friedman, Robert A. Margo, Kenneth Sokoloff, Richard H. Steckel, T. James Trussell, Georgia Villaflor, Kenneth W. Wachter, Secular Changes in American and British Stature and Nutrition, The Journal of Interdisciplinary History, Vol. 14, No. 2, Hunger and History: The Impact of Changing Food Production and Consumption Patterns on Society (Autumn, 1983), pp. 445-481
Migration in Colonial America
Georgia C. Villaflor, Kenneth L. Sokoloff, Migration in Colonial America: Evidence from the Militia Muster Rolls, Social Science History, Vol. 6, No. 4, Trends in Nutrition, Labor, Welfare, and Labor Productivity (Autumn, 1982), pp. 539-570
Women, Children, and Industrialization in the Early Republic
Manufacturing firm data for 1820 to 1850 are employed to investigate the role of women and children in the industrialization of the American Northeast. The principal findings include: (1) Women and children composed a major share of the entire manufacturing labor force; (2) their employment was closely associated with production processes used by large establishments, both mechanized and non-mechanized; (3) the wage of females (and boys) increase…
History Lessons
The explanations offered for the contrasting records of long-run growth and development among the societies of North and South America most often focus on institutions. The traditional explanations for the sources of these differences in institutions, typically highlight the significance of national heritage or religion. We, in contrast, argue that a hemispheric perspective across the wide range of colonies established in the New World by the Eur…
Factor Endowments, Inequality, and Paths of Development Among New World Economics
Whereas traditional explanations of differences in long-run paths of development across the Americas generally point to the significance of differences in national heritage or religion, we highlight the relevance of stark contrasts in the degree of inequality in wealth, human capital, and political power in accounting for how fundamental economic institutions evolved over time.We argue, moreover, that the roots of these disparities in the extent …
The Early Achievement of Modern Stature in America
The military records used in this article, referred to as muster rolls or descriptive lists, are predominantly from the years of the French and Indian War (1756-1763) and the American Revolution (1775-1783), and pertain to the soldiers of the American Colonies. Such lists were compiled for most colonial military forces, typically by individual companies or regiments, and provided the basis for distributing supplies and payments, as well as for ai…
The Evolution of Suffrage Institutions in the New World
Extreme variation in the extent of inequality emerged early across the New World colonies established by the Europeans, and we hypothesized in previous work that these contrasts persisted over time through systematic differences in the ability and inclination of elites to shape legal frameworks to advantage themselves. We find support for this view in how the rules governing the extension of suffrage evolved over time within the United States, an…
Was the transition from the artisanal shop to the nonmechanized factory associated with gains in efficiency
Inventive Activity in Early Industrial America
A sample of patent records from the United States between 1790 and 1846 is employed to study the patterns in inventive activity. Patenting was pro-cyclical, and yet began to grow rapidly with the interruptions in foreign trade that preceded the War of 1812. A strong association between patenting and proximity to navigable waterways is also demonstrated. Although the importance of specific mechanisms remains unclear, both the temporal and cross-se…
Secular Changes in American and British Stature and Nutrition
Robert W. Fogel, Stanley L. Engerman, Roderick Floud, Gerald Friedman, Robert A. Margo, Kenneth Sokoloff, Richard H. Steckel, T. James Trussell, Georgia Villaflor, Kenneth W. Wachter, Secular Changes in American and British Stature and Nutrition, The Journal of Interdisciplinary History, Vol. 14, No. 2, Hunger and History: The Impact of Changing Food Production and Consumption Patterns on Society (Autumn, 1983), pp. 445-481
Women, Children, and Industrialization in the Early Republic
Manufacturing firm data for 1820 to 1850 are employed to investigate the role of women and children in the industrialization of the American Northeast. The principal findings include: (1) Women and children composed a major share of the entire manufacturing labor force; (2) their employment was closely associated with production processes used by large establishments, both mechanized and non-mechanized; (3) the wage of females (and boys) increase…
The Democratization of Invention During Early Industrialization
The skills and knowledge necessary for patentable invention during early American industrialization were widely dispersed among the general population. This endowment permitted a rather elastic supply of patentable ideas over the relevant range as the expansion of markets induced more individuals to invent and innovate.Although a broadening of the ranks of patentees was primarily responsible for the initial acceleration of patenting, the importan…
Debating the Role of Institutions in Political and Economic Development
This essay examines the recent use of the concept of institutions in economics and political science, and the impact of institutions on economic growth and democracy. The discussion includes the definition of institutions, the question of endogenous and exogenous origins of institutions, the role of fixed and flexible institutions, and the relations among different types of institutions. Particular attention is given to recent books by Avner Grei…
Agricultural Seasonalily and the Organization of Manufacturing in Early Industrial Economies
The greater flexibility associated with workers being able to choose the time and circumstance of their work allowed cottage manufacture to compete with technically more productive manufactories by rendering it more effective at harnessing a part time or offpeak workforce whose opportunity cost was low. Not only did this mean that cottage manufacture was better suited to the employment of women and children, who preferred flexibility in their hou…
History Lessons
The U.S. was a pioneer in establishing the world's first modern intellectual property system. That system was distinguished by the provision of broad access to, and strict enforcement of, property rights in new inventions, coupled with the requirement of public disclosure, and it was effective at stimulating the growth of a market for technology and technical change more generally. Far from being static, fundamental modifications were introduced …
Patterns of productivity growth in South Korean manufacturing industries, 1963–1979
Patent Alchemy
The literature on inventors has traditionally focused on entrepreneurs who exploited their ideas in their own businesses and on researchers who worked in large firms' R&D laboratories. For most of US history, however, it was as common for inventors to profit from their ideas by selling off or licensing the patent rights. This article traces the different ways in which inventors resolved the information problems involved in marketing their patents…
The Geography of Invention in the American Glass Industry, 1870–1925
Geographic clustering in inventive activity has often been attributed to clustering in production. For the glass industiy, we find that despite a general association between location of invention and production, there were significant deviations. Centers of production were not always centers of invention, and some of the most inventive areas, such as southern New England, had very limited production. We hypothesize that the growth of a market for…
Slavery in the Development of the Americas
Investment in Fixed and Working Capital During Early Industrialization
This paper utilizes a survey of U. S. manufacturing firms from 1832 to investigate the structure of manufacturing investment during early industrialization. The relative magnitudes of investments in fixed and working capital, and how they varied with firm size, location, and industry, are documented. This variation across industries in the composition of capital investments is indicative of a more general variation in factor intensities, and bear…
Colonisation and Development
This paper describes the nature of European colonisation, particularly of the Americas, in the period from the 16th to the 19th centuries. It details the importance of slaves purchased from Africa in the settlement process. Although Spain was the first major European coloniser, its importance was supplanted over time by the British
Mobilizing Venture Capital during the Second Industrial Revolution
During the Second Industrial Revolution of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Midwestern cities were important centers of innovation. Cleveland, the focus of this study, led in the development of a number of key industries, including electric light and power, steel, petroleum, chemicals, and automobiles, and was a hotbed of high-tech startups, much like Silicon Valley today. In an era when production and invention were increasingl…
Manufacturing Where Agriculture Predominates
Migration in Colonial America
Georgia C. Villaflor, Kenneth L. Sokoloff, Migration in Colonial America: Evidence from the Militia Muster Rolls, Social Science History, Vol. 6, No. 4, Trends in Nutrition, Labor, Welfare, and Labor Productivity (Autumn, 1982), pp. 539-570
Migration in Colonial America
Georgia C. Villaflor, Kenneth L. Sokoloff, Migration in Colonial America: Evidence from the Militia Muster Rolls, Social Science History, Vol. 6, No. 4, Trends in Nutrition, Labor, Welfare, and Labor Productivity (Autumn, 1982), pp. 539-570
Women, Children, and Industrialization in the Early Republic
Manufacturing firm data for 1820 to 1850 are employed to investigate the role of women and children in the industrialization of the American Northeast. The principal findings include: (1) Women and children composed a major share of the entire manufacturing labor force; (2) their employment was closely associated with production processes used by large establishments, both mechanized and non-mechanized; (3) the wage of females (and boys) increase…
The Early Achievement of Modern Stature in America
The military records used in this article, referred to as muster rolls or descriptive lists, are predominantly from the years of the French and Indian War (1756-1763) and the American Revolution (1775-1783), and pertain to the soldiers of the American Colonies. Such lists were compiled for most colonial military forces, typically by individual companies or regiments, and provided the basis for distributing supplies and payments, as well as for ai…
Secular Changes in American and British Stature and Nutrition
Robert W. Fogel, Stanley L. Engerman, Roderick Floud, Gerald Friedman, Robert A. Margo, Kenneth Sokoloff, Richard H. Steckel, T. James Trussell, Georgia Villaflor, Kenneth W. Wachter, Secular Changes in American and British Stature and Nutrition, The Journal of Interdisciplinary History, Vol. 14, No. 2, Hunger and History: The Impact of Changing Food Production and Consumption Patterns on Society (Autumn, 1983), pp. 445-481
Investment in Fixed and Working Capital During Early Industrialization
This paper utilizes a survey of U. S. manufacturing firms from 1832 to investigate the structure of manufacturing investment during early industrialization. The relative magnitudes of investments in fixed and working capital, and how they varied with firm size, location, and industry, are documented. This variation across industries in the composition of capital investments is indicative of a more general variation in factor intensities, and bear…
Was the transition from the artisanal shop to the nonmechanized factory associated with gains in efficiency
Proprietary Capitalism
Journal Article Proprietary Capitalism: The Textile Manufacture at Philadelphia, 1800–1885. By Philip Scranton. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1983. xiii + 431 pp. Maps, illustrations, tables, notes, and index. $34.50.) Get access Kenneth L. Sokoloff Kenneth L. Sokoloff California Institute of Technology and University of California, Los Angeles Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American …
Inventive Activity in Early Industrial America
A sample of patent records from the United States between 1790 and 1846 is employed to study the patterns in inventive activity. Patenting was pro-cyclical, and yet began to grow rapidly with the interruptions in foreign trade that preceded the War of 1812. A strong association between patenting and proximity to navigable waterways is also demonstrated. Although the importance of specific mechanisms remains unclear, both the temporal and cross-se…
Patterns of productivity growth in South Korean manufacturing industries, 1963–1979
The Democratization of Invention During Early Industrialization
The skills and knowledge necessary for patentable invention during early American industrialization were widely dispersed among the general population. This endowment permitted a rather elastic supply of patentable ideas over the relevant range as the expansion of markets induced more individuals to invent and innovate.Although a broadening of the ranks of patentees was primarily responsible for the initial acceleration of patenting, the importan…
The Role of the State in Taiwan's Development
Factor Endowments, Institutions, and Differential Paths of Growth Among New World Economies
10. Factor Endowments, Institutions, and Differential Paths of Growth Among New World Economies: A View from Economic Historians of the United States was published in How Latin America Fell Behind on page 260.
Manufacturing Where Agriculture Predominates
Agricultural Seasonalily and the Organization of Manufacturing in Early Industrial Economies
The greater flexibility associated with workers being able to choose the time and circumstance of their work allowed cottage manufacture to compete with technically more productive manufactories by rendering it more effective at harnessing a part time or offpeak workforce whose opportunity cost was low. Not only did this mean that cottage manufacture was better suited to the employment of women and children, who preferred flexibility in their hou…
Stature, Living Conditions, and Economic Development
Preface by John Komlos Introduction: Growth in Height as a Mirror of the Standard of Living, James M. Tanner 1: The Heights of Europeans since 1750: A New Source for European Economic History Roderick Floud 2: The Height of Schoolchildren in Britain, 1900-1950 Bernard Harris 3: The Heights of the British and the Irish c. 1800-1815: Evidence from Recruits to the East India Company's Army Joel Mokyr, Cormac O Grada. 4: The Standard of Living in Sco…
The Geography of Invention in the American Glass Industry, 1870–1925
Geographic clustering in inventive activity has often been attributed to clustering in production. For the glass industiy, we find that despite a general association between location of invention and production, there were significant deviations. Centers of production were not always centers of invention, and some of the most inventive areas, such as southern New England, had very limited production. We hypothesize that the growth of a market for…
History Lessons
The explanations offered for the contrasting records of long-run growth and development among the societies of North and South America most often focus on institutions. The traditional explanations for the sources of these differences in institutions, typically highlight the significance of national heritage or religion. We, in contrast, argue that a hemispheric perspective across the wide range of colonies established in the New World by the Eur…
The Evolution of Suffrage Institutions in the New World
Extreme variation in the extent of inequality emerged early across the New World colonies established by the Europeans, and we hypothesized in previous work that these contrasts persisted over time through systematic differences in the ability and inclination of elites to shape legal frameworks to advantage themselves. We find support for this view in how the rules governing the extension of suffrage evolved over time within the United States, an…
History Lessons
The U.S. was a pioneer in establishing the world's first modern intellectual property system. That system was distinguished by the provision of broad access to, and strict enforcement of, property rights in new inventions, coupled with the requirement of public disclosure, and it was effective at stimulating the growth of a market for technology and technical change more generally. Far from being static, fundamental modifications were introduced …
Factor Endowments, Inequality, and Paths of Development Among New World Economics
Whereas traditional explanations of differences in long-run paths of development across the Americas generally point to the significance of differences in national heritage or religion, we highlight the relevance of stark contrasts in the degree of inequality in wealth, human capital, and political power in accounting for how fundamental economic institutions evolved over time.We argue, moreover, that the roots of these disparities in the extent …
Developing an Identity
Slavery in the Development of the Americas
Mobilizing Venture Capital during the Second Industrial Revolution
During the Second Industrial Revolution of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Midwestern cities were important centers of innovation. Cleveland, the focus of this study, led in the development of a number of key industries, including electric light and power, steel, petroleum, chemicals, and automobiles, and was a hotbed of high-tech startups, much like Silicon Valley today. In an era when production and invention were increasingl…
Debating the Role of Institutions in Political and Economic Development
This essay examines the recent use of the concept of institutions in economics and political science, and the impact of institutions on economic growth and democracy. The discussion includes the definition of institutions, the question of endogenous and exogenous origins of institutions, the role of fixed and flexible institutions, and the relations among different types of institutions. Particular attention is given to recent books by Avner Grei…
Colonisation and Development
This paper describes the nature of European colonisation, particularly of the Americas, in the period from the 16th to the 19th centuries. It details the importance of slaves purchased from Africa in the settlement process. Although Spain was the first major European coloniser, its importance was supplanted over time by the British
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