Kenneth Sokoloff
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- Bachelors Economics University of California, Berkeley
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Kenneth Lee Sokoloff was an American economic historian who was broadly interested in the interaction between initial factor endowments, institutions, and economic growth. In particular, he examined the influence of factor endowments on economic development in the New World and the role of 19th century United States patent law in encouraging innovation.
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- History Lessons Institutions, Factor Endowments, and Paths of Development in the New World (2000) (1664)
- Factor Endowments: Institutions, and Differential Paths of Growth Among New World Economies: A View from Economic Historians of the United States (1994) (1369)
- Factor Endowments, Inequality, and Paths of Development among New World Economies (2002) (1070)
- Inventive Activity in Early Industrial America: Evidence From Patent Records, 1790–1846 (1988) (314)
- Exports and Manufacturing Productivity in East Asia: A Comparative Analysis with Firm-Level Data (2002) (300)
- The Evolution of Suffrage Institutions in the New World (2001) (285)
- Colonialism, Inequality, and Long-Run Paths of Development (2005) (263)
- Women, Children, and Industrialization in the Early Republic: Evidence from the Manufacturing Censuses (1981) (204)
- Institutional and Non-Institutional Explanations of Economic Differences (2003) (186)
- The Early Achievement of Modern Stature in America (1982) (174)
- The Democratization of Invention During Early Industrialization: Evidence from the United States, 1790–1846 (1989) (172)
- “Schemes of Practical Utility”: Entrepreneurship and Innovation Among “Great Inventors” in the United States, 1790–1865 (1992) (137)
- Inequality, institution and differential paths of growth among New World economies (2000) (136)
- Was the transition from the artisanal shop to the nonmechanized factory associated with gains in efficiency?: Evidence from the U.S. Manufacturing censuses of 1820 and 1850 (1984) (136)
- Inventors, Firms, and the Market for Technology in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries (1997) (131)
- Inequality and the Evolution of Institutions of Taxation: Evidence from the Economic History of the Americas (2007) (120)
- The Relative Productivity Hypothesis of Industrialization: The American Case, 1820-1850 (1981) (118)
- Market Trade in Patents and the Rise of a Class of Specialized Inventors in the 19th-Century United States (2001) (109)
- Patterns of productivity growth in South Korean manufacturing industries, 1963-1979 (1990) (105)
- Patterns of productivity growth in South Korean manufacturing industries, 1963-1979 (1990) (105)
- The Early Development of Intellectual Property Institutions in the United States (2001) (103)
- Financing innovation in the United States, 1870 to the present (2007) (92)
- Inventive Activity and the Market for Technology in the United States, 1840-1920 (1999) (91)
- Intermediaries in the U.S. Market for Technology, 1870-1920 (2002) (85)
- Long-term change in the organization of inventive activity. (1996) (82)
- Debating the Role of Institutions in Political and Economic Development: Theory, History, and Findings* (2008) (75)
- Institutions and Democratic Invention in 19th-Century America: Evidence from "Great Inventors," 1790-1930 (2004) (70)
- Inequality and Taxation: Evidence from the Americas on how Inequality may Influence Tax Institutions (2007) (69)
- The Geography of Invention in the American Glass Industry, 1870–1925 (2000) (62)
- Productivity Growth in Manufacturing During Early Industrialization: Evidence from the American Northeast, 1820 to 1860 (1985) (52)
- The Decline of the Independent Inventor: A Schumpterian Story? (2005) (50)
- Introduction to "Economic Development in the Americas since 1500: Endowments and Institutions" (2011) (50)
- Institutions and Technological Innovation During the Early Economic Growth: Evidence from the Great Inventors of the United States, 1790-1930 (2004) (42)
- Agricultural Seasonalily and the Organization of Manufacturing in Early Industrial Economies: The Contrast Between England and the United States (1997) (41)
- Human Capital and Institutions: The Evolution of Schooling in the Americas, 1800–1925 (2009) (39)
- Patent Alchemy: The Market for Technology in US History (2013) (36)
- Long-Term Trends in Schooling: The Rise and Decline (?) of Public Education in the United States (2006) (32)
- Location and Technological Change in the American Glass Industry During the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries (1997) (31)
- Economic Development in the Americas since 1500 (2012) (30)
- Technology and Industrialization, 1790–1914 (2000) (30)
- Slavery in the Development of the Americas: Contributors (2004) (29)
- Migration in Colonial America: Evidence from the Militia Muster Rolls (1982) (28)
- The Market for Manufacturing Workers During Early Industrialization: The American Northeast, 1820 to 1860 (1991) (26)
- Investment in Fixed and Working Capital During Early Industrialization: Evidence from U. S. Manufacturing Firms (1984) (25)
- Mobilizing Venture Capital during the Second Industrial Revolution: Cleveland, Ohio, 1870-1920 (2006) (23)
- Invention, Innovation, and Manufacturing Productivity Growth in the Antebellum Northeast (1992) (21)
- Manufacturing Where Agriculture Predominates: Evidence from the South and Midwest in 1860 (1997) (19)
- Finance, Intermediaries, and Economic Development: List of Contributors (2003) (18)
- The Reorganization of Inventive Activity in the United States During the Early Twentieth Century (2009) (17)
- History Lessons: The Early Development of Intellectual Property Institutions in the United States (2016) (17)
- The Evolution of Suffrage Institutions (2011) (15)
- Human Capital and Institutions (2009) (12)
- Science, technology, and economic growth. (1996) (11)
- Historical Perspectives on Patent Systems in Economic Development (2008) (11)
- Intellectual Property Institutions in the United States: Early Development and Comparative Perspective (2003) (10)
- Once Upon a Time in the Americas: Land and Immigration Policies in the New World (2008) (10)
- The evolution of useful knowledge: great inventors, science and technology in British economic development, 1750-1930 (2007) (10)
- Changes in American and British Stature Since the Mid-Eighteenth Century: A Prelimanary Report on the Usefulness of Data on Height.. (1982) (8)
- Digging the Dirt at Public Expense (2006) (8)
- Introduction: The Organization and Finance of Innovation in American History (2007) (7)
- A Tale of Two Countries: Innovation and Incentives Among Great Inventors in Britain and the United States, 1750–1930 (2008) (7)
- The Heights of Americans in Three Centuries: Some Economic and Demographic Implications (1984) (6)
- Five Hundred Years of European Colonization: Inequality and Paths of Development (2013) (6)
- The Evolution of Schooling: 1800-1925 (2011) (6)
- Agricultural Seasonality and the Organization of Manufacturing During Early Industrialization: The Contrast between Britain and the United States (1991) (4)
- Manufacturing during Early Industrialization: Evidence from the American Northeast, 1820-1860 (2006) (4)
- Perspectives on Commercializing Innovation: The Decline of the Independent Inventor (2011) (3)
- Colonial and Revolutionary Muster Rolls: Some New Evidence on Nutrition and Migration in Early America (1979) (3)
- INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY INSTITUTIONS IN THE UNITED STATES: (2000) (3)
- Developing an Identity (2004) (3)
- Colonisation and Development (2012) (3)
- Once Upon a Time in the Americas (2011) (3)
- Inequality and the Evolution of Taxation (2011) (2)
- Stature, Living Conditions, and Economic Development: Essays in Anthropometric History (1997) (2)
- Bureaucrats, Subordinates, and the Failure of Soviet Marxism (1992) (2)
- Institutional and Non-Institutional Explanations of Economic Development (2011) (2)
- Intermediaries in the Market for Technology (2011) (1)
- Paths of Development: An Overview (2011) (1)
- Comments on Ferrie, Rutten, and Levenstein (1993) (0)
- Land and Immigration Policies (2011) (0)
- Human Capital and Institutions: Introduction (2009) (0)
- Front matter, table of contents, preface, acknowledgments (2011) (0)
- The Role of the State in Taiwan's Development: Taiwan in the Modern World. (1995) (0)
- The Role of Institutions in Shaping Factor Endowments (2011) (0)
- The Geography of Invention in the (2016) (0)
- Bibliography, Past Publications, Index (2011) (0)
- Coffee, Society, and Power in Latin America. Edited by William Roseberry, Lowell Gudmundson, and Mario Samper Kutschbach. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press, 1995. Pp. xii, 304. $48.50, cloth; $15.95, paper (1996) (0)
- Factor Endowments and Institutions (2011) (0)
- Development outreach 8 (1) : equity and development (2006) (0)
- Five Hundred Years of European Colonization (2011) (0)
- World Population Growth: The Force of Recent (2014) (0)
- Slavery in the Development of the Americas: Appreciation: Stanley L. Engerman and Slavery (2004) (0)
- EARLY DEVELOPMENT AND COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVE (2000) (0)
- Finance, Intermediaries, and Economic Development: Preface (2003) (0)
- Finance, Intermediaries, and Economic Development: Afterword: About Lance Davis (2003) (0)
- General and Miscellaneous (1991) (0)
- Slavery in the Development of the Americas: The Writings of Stanley L. Engerman (2004) (0)
- Long-term change in the organiz (2016) (0)
- The Path to Mechanized Shoe Production in the United States. By Ross Thomson · Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1989. xiii + 296 pp. Illustrations, tables, notes, bibliography, and index. $39.95 (1991) (0)
- United States (1988) (0)
- Epilogue: Institutions in Political and Economic Development (2011) (0)
- Science, technology, and economic growth (1996) (0)
- Digging the Dirt at Public Expense: Digging the Dirt at Public Expense Erie Canal and Other Public Works (2006) (0)
- Finance, Intermediaries, and Economic Development: Introduction (2003) (0)
- Manufacturing Productivity Growth in the Antebellum Northeast (1992) (0)
- Industrial Evolution: Organization, Structure, and Growth of the Pennsylvania IUron Industry, 1750–1860. By Paul F. Palkoff. Baltimore: The Johns Hoplkins Press, 1983. Pp. xx, 182. $22.00 (1985) (0)
- The Rise of the Midwestern Meat Packing Industry. By Margaret Walsh. Lexington: The University Press of Kentucky, 1982. Pp. x, 182. $14.95 (1983) (0)
- Frontiers of Change: Early Industrialism in America. By Thomas C. Cochran. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1981. 179 pp. Cloth, $17.50; paper, $7.95.) (1986) (0)
- 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.) (1985) (0)
- This paper was presented at a colloquium entitled ‘ ‘ Science , Technology , and the Economy , ’ ’ organized by Ariel Pakes and (1996) (0)
- Firm Financing, Ownership Structure and Market Competition in United States Manufacturing during the Nineteenth Century (2016) (0)
- Settler Economies in World History (2006) (0)
- General and Miscellaneous (1993) (0)
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