Portage and Path Dependence
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 23316900 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Hoyt Bleakley (0009-0002-2825-6107, University of Illinois Chicago), Jeffrey Lin (0000-0002-0937-9606, University of Chicago) |
| Year | 2012 |
| Volume | 127 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 587-644 |
| Publication date | 2012-05-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Quarterly Journal of Economics (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0033-5533 • E-ISSN: 1531-4650 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (OUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1093/qje/qjs011 |
| PMID | 23935217 |
| PMCID | PMC3738199 |
| OpenAlex | W1894646273 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 172 |
| References cited | 24 |
Many cities in North America formed at obstacles to water navigation, where continued transport required overland hauling or portage . Portage sites attracted commerce and supporting services, and places where the falls provided water power attracted manufacturing during early industrialization. We examine portage sites in the U.S. South, Mid-Atlantic, and Midwest, including those on the fall line , a geomorphological feature in the southeastern United States marking the final rapids on rivers before the ocean. Although their original advantages have long since become obsolete, we document the continuing importance of historical portage sites. We interpret these results as path dependence and contrast explanations based on sunk costs interacting with decreasing versus increasing returns to scale.
Business · Cartography · Contrast (vision) · Economics · Feature (linguistics) · Geography · Industrialisation · Market economy · Microeconomics · Path (computing) · Path dependence · Scale (ratio) · Sunk costs · Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science · Culture, Economy, and Development Studies · Historical Economic and Social Studies · Regional Economics and Spatial Analysis
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