This series delves into the profound drivers of long-term economic development across nations. It investigates the pivotal factors that shape prosperity and stagnation over centuries. Through expert essays, it offers analytical insights into history, institutions, and technology influencing economic trajectories. This is essential reading for anyone seeking to understand the deep roots of global economic outcomes.
Patents and Copyrights in American Economic Development, 1790-1920
Focusing on the evolution of American intellectual property rights, this examination highlights their development and influence throughout the 'long nineteenth century'. It delves into the historical context, exploring how these rights shaped cultural and economic landscapes, and assesses their lasting impact on modern intellectual property frameworks.
This book offers a reassessment of the international monetary problems that led to the global economic crisis of the 1930s. It explores the connections between the gold standard--the framework regulating international monetary affairs until 1931--and the Great Depression that broke out in 1929. Eichengreen shows how economic policies, in conjunction with the imbalances created by World War I, gave rise to the global crisis of the 1930s. He demonstrates that the gold standard fundamentally constrained the economic policies that were pursued and that it was largely responsible for creating the unstable economic environment on which those policies acted. The book also provides a valuable perspective on the economic policies of the post-World War II period and their consequences.
This book, first published in 2005, examines the evolution and impact of American intellectual property rights during the 'long nineteenth century'. America is compared to Britain and France, whose institutions reflected their oligarchic origins. The United States created the first modern patent system and its politics were the most liberal world wide toward inventors.