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Gavin Wright

29 works· latest 2022· 2 institutionscluster: provisionalORCID 0000-0002-7000-9305

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An evolutionary theory of economic change1982 · 3,194 citations
The Rise and Fall of American Technological Leadership: The Postwar Era in Historical Perspective2007 · 491 citations
Natural resources: neither curse nor destiny2007 · 457 citations
Increasing Returns and the Genesis of American Resource Abundance1997 · 416 citations
The Political Economy of New Deal Spending: An Econometric Analysis1974 · 406 citations

Works

29 shown

Slavery and the Rise of the Nineteenth-Century American Economy

The Journal of Economic Perspectives·2022·1 author·Open access

60citations

Slavery and Anglo‐American capitalism revisited

The Economic History Review·2020·1 author

39citations

“The origins of American industrial success, 1879–1940”

Cambridge University Press eBooks·2012·1 author·chapter

366citations

Natural resources: neither curse nor destiny

Choice Reviews Online·2007·17 authors·other

457citations

LABOR HISTORY SYMPOSIUM

Labor History·2007·7 authors

9citations

The Rise and Fall of American Technological Leadership: The Postwar Era in Historical Perspective

Journal of Economic Literature·2007·2 authors

491citations

The Historical Statistics of the United States

·2006·6 authors

183citations

Slavery and American Economic Development

Project Muse (Johns Hopkins University)·2006·1 author

89citations

Order without law? Property rights during the California gold rush

Explorations in Economic History·2005·2 authors·Open access

113citations

WHY ECONOMIES SLOW: The Myth of the Resource Curse

Challenge·2004·2 authors

246citations

The Myth of the Resource Curse

·2004·2 authors

114citations

Exorcizing the Resource Curse: Minerals as a Knowledge Industry, Past and Present

RePEc: Research Papers in Economics·2002·2 authors·preprint

46citations

Mineral Resources and Economic Development

·2002·2 authors

93citations

Escape from the Market: Negotiating Work in Lancashire

Canadian Journal of Economics/Revue canadienne d économique·1998·2 authors·Open access

95citations

Can a Nation Learn? American Technology as a Network Phenomenon

RePEc: Research Papers in Economics·1997·1 author·preprint

48citations

Towards a More Historical Approach to Technological Change

The Economic Journal·1997·1 author

121citations

Increasing Returns and the Genesis of American Resource Abundance

Industrial and Corporate Change·1997·1 author

416citations

The mosaic of economic growth

·1996·2 authors

341citations

Like a Family: The Making of a Southern Cotton Mill World

The Journal of Interdisciplinary History·1989·6 authors·other

140citations

Old South, New South: Revolutions in the Southern Economy since the Civil War.

The Journal of Southern History·1987·2 authors

348citations

The Economic Revolution in the American South

The Journal of Economic Perspectives·1987·1 author·Open access

106citations

An evolutionary theory of economic change

Technology in Society·1982·1 author

3,194citations

The Efficiency of Slavery: Another Interpretation

American Economic Review·1979·1 author

72citations

Slavery and the cotton boom

Explorations in Economic History·1975·1 author

45citations

Cotton Competition and the Post-Bellum Recovery of the American South

The Journal of Economic History·1974·1 author

77citations

The Political Economy of New Deal Spending: An Econometric Analysis

The Review of Economics and Statistics·1974·1 author

406citations

The Effects of Pre-Civil War Territorial Expansion on the Price of Slaves

Journal of Political Economy·1972·2 authors

29citations