Paul A. David

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According to Wikipedia, Paul Allan David was an American academic economist, noted for his work on the economics of scientific progress and technical change. He was also well-known for his work in American economic history and in demographic economics.

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Clio and the Economics of QWERTY (1985) (6019)
Toward a new economics of science (1994) (2442)
Is Public R&D a Complement or Substitute for Private R&D? A Review of the Econometric Evidence (1999) (1727)
The explicit economics of knowledge codification and tacitness (2000) (1360)
The Dynamo and the Computer: An Historical Perspective on the Modern Productivity Paradox (1990) (1328)
The Economics Of Compatibility Standards: An Introduction To Recent Research 1 (1990) (900)
Why are institutions the ‘carriers of history’?: Path dependence and the evolution of conventions, organizations and institutions (1994) (890)
Nations and households in economic growth : essays in honor of Moses Abramovitz (1974) (619)
Path Dependence, its Critics, and the Quest for ‘Historical Economics’ (2005) (591)
Technical choice innovation and economic growth (1975) (576)
AN INTRODUCTION TO THE ECONOMY OF THE KNOWLEDGE SOCIETY (2002) (462)
Accessing and expanding the science and technology knowledge base (1995) (429)
Smart specialisation From academic idea to political instrument, the surprising career of a concept and the difficulties involved in its implementation (2011) (385)
Path dependence: a foundational concept for historical social science (2007) (371)
Economic Fundamentals of the Knowledge Society (2003) (352)
Economic policy and technological performance: Some new standards for the economics of standardization in the information age (1987) (345)
Knowledge, Property, and the System Dynamics of Technological Change (1992) (321)
COMPUTER AND DYNAMO: The Modern Productivity Paradox in a Not-Too Distant Mirror (1989) (310)
Information Disclosure and the Economics of Science and Technology (1987) (284)
Science, Technology and Innovation for Economic Growth: Linking Policy Research and Practice in "STIG Systems" (2009) (281)
The economics of gateway technology and network evolution: lessons from electricity supply history (1988) (249)
Marshallian factor market externalities and the dynamics of industrial localization (1990) (214)
General Purpose Technologies and Surges in Productivity: Historical Reflections on the Future of the ICT Revolution (1999) (209)
Convergence and deferred catch-up. Productivity leadership and the waning of American exceptionalism (1994) (193)
Analysing The Economic Payoffs From Basic Research (1992) (193)
Heart of Darkness: Modeling Public-Private Funding Interactions Inside the R&D Black Box (2000) (186)
Technical Choice Innovation and Economic Growth: Essays on American and British Experience in the Nineteenth Century (1975) (186)
Economics of compatibility standards and competition in telecommunication networks (1994) (182)
Biased Efficiency Growth and Capital-Labor Substitution in the U.S., 1899-1960Biased Efficiency Growth and Capital-Labor Substitution in the U.S., 1899-1960 (1965) (177)
Private Savings: Ultrarationality, Aggregation, and 'Denison's Law' (1974) (177)
Understanding the emergence of 'open science' institutions: functionalist economics in historical context (2004) (175)
Community-Based Production of Open Source Software: What Do We Know about the Developers Who Participate? (2008) (168)
Common Agency Contracting and the Emergence of "Open Science" Institutions (1998) (159)
Can ‘Open Science’ be Protected from the Evolving Regime of IPR Protections? (2004) (158)
Formal standards-setting for global telecommunications and information services. Towards an institutional regime transformation? (1996) (156)
The Historical Origins of 'Open Science': An Essay on Patronage, Reputation and Common Agency Contracting in the Scientific Revolution (2008) (155)
Reinterpreting Economic Growth: Parables and Realities (1973) (146)
American Macroeconomic Growth in the Era of Knowledge-Based Progress: The Long-Run Perspective (2000) (140)
Heroes, Herds and Hysteresis in Technological History: Thomas Edison and ‘The Battle of the Systems’ Reconsidered (1992) (137)
Path Dependence and the Quest for Historical Economics: One More chorus of Ballad of QWERTY (1997) (132)
Reputation and Competence in Publicly Funded Science: Estimating the Effects on Research Group Productivity (1998) (121)
Understanding Digital Technology’s Evolution and the Path of Measured Productivity Growth: Present and Future in the Mirror of the Past (2005) (114)
The Allocation of Software Development Resources In ‘Open Source’ Production Mode (2005) (110)
The Growth of Real Product in the United States Before 1840: New Evidence, Controlled Conjectures (1967) (98)
Standardization, diversity and learning: Strategies for the coevolution of technology and industrial capacity (1996) (96)
Positive Feedback and Research Productivity in Science: Reopening Another Black Box (1994) (92)
Fortune, Risk, and the Microeconomics of Migration (1974) (90)
Adoption Subsidies vs Information Provision as Instruments of Technology Policy (1986) (86)
Early Twentieth Century Productivity Growth Dynamics: An Inquiry into the Economic History of "Our Ignorance" (1999) (85)
Towards a cyberinfrastructure for enhanced scientific collaboration: Providing its 'soft' foundations may be the hardest part (2006) (83)
Reckoning with Slavery: A Critical Study in the Quantitative History of American Negro Slavery. (1976) (82)
Old-age security motives, labor markets, and farm family fertility in antebellum American (1988) (79)
Communication Norms and the Collective Cognitive Performance of "Invisible Colleges". (1998) (78)
Towards Institutional Infrastructures for e-Science: The Scope of the Challenge (2003) (77)
Tragedy of the Public Knowledge 'Commons'? Global Science, Intellectual Property and the Digital Technology Boomerang (2001) (75)
Knowledge, Capabilities and Human Capital Formation in Economic Growth (2000) (75)
The Economic Future in Historical Perspective (2006) (70)
The Evolutionary Foundations of Economics: Path dependence in economic processes: implications for policy analysis in dynamical system contexts (2005) (67)
Rudimentary Contraceptive Methods and the American Transition to Marital Fertility Control, 1855-1915 (1986) (66)
Learning By Doing and Tariff Protection: A Reconsideration of the Case of the Ante-Bellum United States Cotton Textile Industry (1970) (65)
Transport Innovation and Economic Growth: Professor Fogel on and off the Rails (1969) (64)
Reckoning With Slavery (1976) (62)
The emergence of a two-child norm among American birth-controllers. (1987) (62)
Dynamics of Innovation in an Open Source Collaboration Environment: Lurking, Laboring, and Launching Floss Projects on Sourceforge (2007) (61)
Marshallian Externalities And The Emergence And Spatial Stability Of Technological Enclaves (1998) (60)
Explaining the Relative Efficiency of Slave Agriculture in the Antebellum South: Comment (1977) (59)
Path Dependence in Spatial Networks : The Standardization of Railway Track Gauge (2002) (59)
Slavery: The Progressive Institution? (1974) (58)
General Purpose Technologies and Productivity Surges: Historical Reflections on the Future of the ICT Revolution (2005) (56)
The research network and the new economics of science: from metaphors to organisational behaviours (1998) (55)
From Keeping Natures Secrets to the Institutionalization of Open Science (2001) (54)
Two Centuries of American Macroeconomic Growth From Exploitation of Resource Abundance to Knowledge-Driven Development (2005) (53)
Percolation structures, Markov random fields and the economics of EDI standards diffusion (1994) (53)
Invention and accumulation in america's economic growth: A nineteenth-century parable (1977) (51)
Technology adoption, learning spillovers, and the optimal duration of patent-based monopolies (1992) (49)
Standards trade and competition in the emerging global information infrastructure environment. (1996) (48)
Evidence of fertility regulation among rural French villagers, 1749–1789 (1989) (48)
The Economics of Compatibility of Standards (1990) (44)
Just how misleading are official exchange rate conversions (1972) (44)
A Statement on the Appropriate Role for Research and Development in Climate Policy (2008) (43)
Evidence of fertility regulation among rural french villagers, 1749–1789 (1989) (42)
The Evolving Accidental Information Super‐Highway (2001) (41)
The Political Economy of Public Science (1999) (41)
FROM MARKET MAGIC TO CALYPSO SCIENCE POLICY A Review of Terence Kealey's The Economic Laws of Scientific Research (1997) (41)
Information Distribution and the Growth of Economically Valuable Knowledge: A Rationale for Technological Infrastructure Policies (1996) (40)
Advancing Economic Research on the Free and Open Source Software Mode of Production (2004) (39)
Krugman’s Economic Geography of Development: Negs, Pogs, and Naked Models in Space (1999) (38)
Property and the pursuit of knowledge: IPR issues affecting scientific research (2006) (38)
Measuring marital fertility control with CPA. (1988) (37)
Measuring standardization: An application to the American and French nuclear power industries (1996) (36)
Optimal Resource Allocation in an Imperfect Market Setting (1961) (36)
International Public Goods and Transfer of Technology under a Globalized Intellectual Property Regime: Koyaanisqatsi in Cyberspace: The Economics of an “Out-of-Balance” Regime of Private Property Rights in Data and Information (2005) (35)
The Digital Technology Boomerang: New Intellectual Property Rights Threaten Global “Open Science” (2005) (33)
The Horndal effect in lowell, 1834-1856: A short-run learning curve for integrated cotton textile mills (1973) (33)
At last, a remedy for chronic QWERTY-skepticism! (1999) (32)
Learning by accident? Reductions in the risk of unplanned outages in U.S. nuclear power plants after Three Mile Island (1996) (32)
Path dependence and varieties of learning in the evolution of technological practice (2000) (32)
Heart of Darkness: Public-Private Interaction Inside the R&D Black Box (1999) (32)
Real Income and Economic Welfare Growth in the Early Republic or, Another Try at Getting the American Story Straight (1996) (30)
Zvi Griliches on Diffusion, Lags and Productivity Growth …Connecting the Dots (2005) (30)
Cohort parity analysis and fertility transition dynamics: reconstructing historical trends in fertility control from a single census. (1990) (29)
Patronage, Reputation and Common Agency Contracting in the Scientific Revolution: From Keeping 'Nature's Secrets' to the Institutionalization of 'Open Science' (2004) (27)
Fundamentos economicos de la sociedad del conocimiento. (Economic Foundations of the Knowledge Society. With English summary.) (2002) (27)
The Deflation of Value Added (1962) (27)
The Isdn Bandwagon Is Coming, But Who Will Be There To Climb Aboard?: Quandaries In The Economics Of Data Communication Networks (1990) (24)
The Dynamo and the Computer: An Historical Perspective on the Productivity Paradox (2010) (23)
Anticipated Automation: A Rational Expectations Model of Technological Diffusion (1984) (23)
The Economic Analysis of Payoffs from Basic Research--An Examination of the Case of Particle Physics Research (1992) (22)
Cohort parity analysis: Statistical estimates of the extent of fertility control (1988) (20)
Measuring Real Net Output: A Proposed Index (1966) (20)
Simulating Code Growth in Libre (Open-Source) Mode (2005) (20)
The Beginnings and Prospective Ending of “End-to-End” (2001) (19)
Productivity growth prospects and the new economy in historical perspective (2005) (18)
The Political Economy of Public Science: a Contribution to the Regulation of Science and Technology (2002) (17)
SimCode: Agent-based Simulation Modelling of Open-Source Software Development (2005) (17)
‘Only Connect’: Academic–Business Research Collaborations and the Formation of Ecologies of Innovation (2010) (17)
Will Building ‘Good Fences’ Really Make ‘Good Neighbors’ in Science? (2001) (17)
The endogenous formation of scientific research coalitions (2003) (17)
Industrialization and Fertility in the Nineteenth Century : Evidence from South Carolina (2012) (17)
Science reorganized? : Post-modern visions of research and the curse of success (1996) (16)
Reckoning with Slavery. A Critical Study in the Quantitative History of American Negro Slavery. (1977) (16)
Additionality as a principle of European R&D funding (1995) (15)
Science, Technology, and Knowledge: What Historians can learn from an evolutionary approach (2000) (15)
The Demography of an Early Mortality Transition: Life Expectancy, Survival and Mortality Rates for Britain’s Royals, 1500‐1799 (2010) (15)
How Open is e-Science? (2006) (15)
Capitalist Masters, Bourgeois Slaves (1974) (14)
Standards Development Strategies Under Incomplete Information. Isn't the 'Battle of the Sexes' Really a Relevant Game? (1994) (14)
Linking Policy Research and Practice in ‘Stig Systems’: Many Obstacles, But Some Ways Forward (2007) (14)
Will e-Science Be Open Science? (2008) (14)
Digital Technologies, Research Collaborations and the Extension of Protection for Intellectual Property in Science: Will Building 'Good Fences' Really Make 'Good Neighbors'? (2001) (14)
The Economic Logic of “Open Science” and the Balance between Private Property Rights and the Public Domain in Scientific Data and (2005) (12)
The Economics of Scientific Research Coalitions: Collaborative Network Formation in the Presence of Multiple Funding Agencies (2003) (12)
The Origins of American Resource Abundance (1995) (11)
Micro-dynamics of Free and Open Source Software Development. Lurking, laboring and launching new projects on SourceForge (2006) (10)
Technical Choice, Innovation and Economic Growth. Essays on American and British Experience in the Nineteenth Century. (1976) (10)
Toward a Global Science and Technology Policy Agenda for Sustainable Development (2009) (10)
The new international telecommunications environment. Competition, regulation, trade and standards (1996) (10)
Perspectives on innovation: Innovation and Europe's academic institutions – second thoughts about embracing the Bayh–Dole regime (2007) (10)
Service Provision to Black People: A Study of Occupational Therapy Staff in Physical Disability Teams within Social Services (1995) (9)
Empirical issues in open source software (2008) (9)
Designing Institutional Infrastructures for e-Science (2008) (9)
Preparing for the next, very long crisis: towards a 'cool' science and technology policy agenda for a globally warming economy (2009) (8)
Zvi Griliches and the Economics of Technology Diffusion: Linking innovation adoption, lagged investments, and productivity growth (2015) (8)
Research in e-Science and Open Access to Data and Information (2009) (8)
Koyaanisqatsi in Cyberspace (2005) (8)
Knowledge Economists Policy Brief n ° 9 June 2009 (2009) (8)
Can we link policy practice with research on "STIG systems"? Toward connecting the analysis of science, technology and innovation policy with realistic programs for economic development and growth. (2009) (8)
Cooperation, creativity and closure in scientific research networks: modelling the dynamics of epistemic communities (2003) (8)
Science, Technology and Innovation for Economic Growth: Linking Policy Research and Practice in 'Stig Systems' (2008) (7)
5. The landscape and the machine: technical interrelatedness, land tenure and the mechanization of the corn harvest in Victorian Britain (2015) (7)
The Use and Abuse of Prior Information in Econometric History: A Rejoinder to Professor Williamson on the Antebellum Cotton Textile Industry (1972) (6)
Public dimensions of the knowledge-driven economy (2001) (6)
THE TALE OF TWO TRAVERSES Innovation and Accumulation in the First Two Centuries of U.S. Economic Growth (2005) (6)
A Multi-dimensional View of the "Sustainability" of Free & Open Source Software Development Sustaining Commitment, Innovation and Maintainability with Growth (2006) (6)
Science, Technology and Innovation for Economic Growth: Towards Linking Policy Research and Practice in 'STIG Systems' (2008) (6)
Reforming the Taxation of Human Capital: A Modest Proposal for Promoting Economic Growth (2005) (6)
Knowledge Management Innovation in the Knowledge Economy (2004) (6)
THE IMPACT OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY UPON ECONOMIC SCIENCE (1991) (6)
Restricting Access to Books on the Internet: Some Unanticipated Effects of US Copyright Legislation (2008) (6)
Mitigating "Anticommons" Harms to Science and Technology Research (2011) (6)
The Innovation Fetish among the "Economoi": Introduction to the Panel on Innovation Incentives, Institutions, and Economic Growth (2011) (6)
May 6th – Signals from a Very Brief but Emblematic Catastrophe on Wall Street (2010) (6)
Towards a cyberinfrastructure for enhanced scientific (2005) (5)
DIME Working Papers on INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS (2006) (5)
Toward an Analytical Framework for the Study of Distributed Problem-Solving Networks (2008) (5)
Europe's Universities and Innovation - Past, Present and Future (2006) (5)
The micro-dynamics of open source software development activity (2006) (5)
Collaborative Research in e-Science and Open Access to Information (2009) (5)
The Social and Economic Context of Fertility (1996) (4)
Comment: [Altruism and the Economic Theory of Fertility] (1986) (4)
Zvi Griliches and the Economics of Technology Diffusion: Adoption of Innovations, Investment Lags, and Productivity Growth (2010) (4)
World Wide Research: Reshaping the Sciences and Humanities (2010) (4)
Does the new economy need all the old IPR institutions and still more (2005) (4)
Digital Information Network Technologies, Organization Performance and Productivity (2005) (4)
Mitigating 'Anticommons' Harms to Research in Science and Technology (2010) (4)
From Growth to the Millenium: Economics and the Transformation of the Idea of Progress (1979) (4)
Breaking Anti-Commons Constraints on Global Scientific Research: Some New Moves in “Legal Jujitsu” (2011) (4)
Economic policy analysis and the internet: Coming to terms with a telecommunications anomaly (2006) (4)
European economic growth: The impact of new technologies (2001) (3)
CODE: Collaboration and Ownership in the Digital Economy (2005) (3)
Understanding Greenback Inflation and Deflation: An Asset—Pricing Approach (2008) (3)
Institutional Infrastructures for Global Research Networks in the Public Sector (2010) (3)
European Space Technology Harmonisation On Board Computer &Data Systems (2003) (3)
Subsidisation vs Information Provision as Instruments of Technology Policy (1985) (3)
Bug-Patching for Mozilla's Firefox (2008) (3)
Optimal Multi-Phase Transition Paths toward A Stabilized Global Climate: Integrated Dynamic Requirements Analysis for the 'Tech Fix' (2012) (3)
The Consequences for Internet-Mediated Research Collaborations of Broadening IPR Protections (2001) (3)
Data and Information Access in E-Research: Results from a 2008 Survey Among UK E-Science Project Participants (2009) (3)
International Collaborations Through the Internet (2007) (3)
Reflections on the Patent System and IPR Protection in the Past, Present and Future (2006) (3)
“It Takes All Kinds”: A Simulation Modeling Perspective on Motivation and Coordination in Libre Software Development Projects (2007) (3)
Mapping E-Science's Path in the Collaboration Space: An Ontological Approach to Monitoring Infrastructure Development (2008) (3)
Motivation and Coordination in Libre Software Development A Stygmergic Simulation Perspective on Large Community-Mode Projects (2007) (3)
On open source software and the organization of cathedral-building : metaphors and realities (2008) (2)
Labour Productivity in English Agriculture, 1850–1914: Some Quantitative Evidence on Regional Differences (1970) (2)
Understanding the Digital Economy ' s Evolution and the Path of Measured Productivity Growth : Present and Future in the Mirror of the Past (2000) (2)
How Many Scanned Books on the Web (2008) (2)
Historical Economics in the Longrun: Some Implications of Path-Dependence (2019) (2)
Capitalist Masters, Bourgeois Slaves@@@Time on the Cross. I: The Economics of American Negro Slavery@@@Time on the Cross. II: Evidence and Methods: A Supplement (1975) (2)
Designing an optimal 'tech fix' path to global climate stability : directed R&D and embodied technical change in a multi‐phase framework (2013) (2)
The Highly Reliable Infrastructure System Family for ASSERT (2005) (2)
Optimal multi-phase transition paths toward a global green economy (2012) (1)
Higher education institutions and the global role of free/libre and open source software (2007) (1)
Designing an optimal 'tech fix' path to global climate stability: R&D in a multi-phase climate policy framework (2013) (1)
Relating social structure to technical structure : findings from the Linux kernel (2008) (1)
Free & open source software creation and ‘the economy of regard' (2004) (1)
Designing Institutional Infrastructure for E-Science (2007) (1)
The interplay between volunteers and firm’s employees in distributed innovation: emergent architectures and stigmergy in open source software (2022) (1)
Designing an Optimal 'Tech Fix' Path to Global Climate Stability: Integrated Dynamic Requirements Analysis for the 'Tech Fix' (2015) (1)
Alternative Estimates of Fertility Control by Using Parity Distributions: Reply (1990) (1)
A Cliometric Key for a Historical Lock@@@Technical Choice, Innovation, and Economic Growth: Essays on American and British Experience in the Nineteenth Century. (1976) (1)
No . 01-14 Economic Fundamentals Of the Knowledge Society (2002) (1)
Innovation in the Past and Future of Europe's Universities (2006) (1)
The Performance of Distributed Problem Solving Networks: A Final Report on the OII-MTI Project (2008) (1)
Technical Choice, Innovation and Economic Growth: Essays on American and British Experience in the Nineteenth Century. (1976) (1)
IN MEMORIAM MOSES ABRAMOVITZ 1912 2000 (2001) (0)
Quantifying Slavery and the Slave Trade@@@Race and Slavery in the Western Hemisphere: Quantitative Studies@@@Reckoning with Slavery (1978) (0)
Contraceptive technology and fertility control in Victorian America: from facts to theories (1976) (0)
LEM Working Paper Series Micro-dynamics of Free and Open Source Software Development Lurking , labor ing and launching new projects on SourceForge (2007) (0)
Heart of Darnkess: Public-Private Interactions Inside the R and D Black Box (1999) (0)
Mapping the interrelationships between art, science and technology for nearly ten years (2011) (0)
A Report on Findings from the FLOSSWORLD Survey of Developing and Transition Economies (2007) (0)
New Moves in “Legal Jujitsu” against Adverse Consequences of the Exploitation of IPR on Publicly and Privately Funded Research Results (2010) (0)
The economics of an ‘out-of-balance’ regime of private property rights in digital data and information (2003) (0)
American Economic Association Clio and the Economics of QWERTY Author ( s ) : (2008) (0)
New Science, New Industry and New Institutions? Second Thoughts on Innovation and Europe’s Universities (2005) (0)
Historical Perspetives on the American Economy: “Slavery: The progressive institution?” (1995) (0)
The Economics of the Wartime Shortage . By Mancur Olson Jr. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 1963. Pp. vi, 152. $4.50. (1965) (0)
JEH volume 27 issue 2 Cover and Front matter (1967) (0)
FROM THE ECONOMICS OF QWERTY TO THE MILLENNIUM BUG , AND BEYOND Just-inTime for Y 2 K , and Next ... For Irreversible Global Warming and Environmental Catastrophe ? (2008) (0)
Mm Mm^ Fl (2011) (0)
Prepared for the Conference on R & D , Education and Productivity Held in Memory of Zvi Griliches ( 1930 – 1999 ) 25-27 th (2003) (0)
Thinking Historically about Challenging Economic Issues. (2011) (0)
Standards for On Board Data Systems: An Updated View (2005) (0)
The recruitment of students in scientific preparatory classes for entry into France’s grandes écoles: Between mastering uncertainties and the need to survive in a quasi-market (2020) (0)
Microelectronics and the Macroeconomic Outlook (1982) (0)
Advancements in electrodynamic wireless power transmission (2016) (0)
Mitigating damages to global science from “the anti-commons” (2007) (0)
Regional Linkages through European Research Funding 1 (1994) (0)
SESSION 5A: PRODUCTIVITY (2001) (0)

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