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北大经院工作坊第1060场
Codification, Technology Absorption, and the Globalization of the Industrial Revolution
经济史工作坊
主讲人:
Réka Juhász (Assistant Professor of Economics at the University of British Columbia)
主持老师:
(北大经院)赵一泠
(清华大学)徐志浩
参与老师:
(北大经院)郝煜、管汉晖、周建波
(北大光华)颜色、李波
时间:
2025年3月27日(周四)
11:00-13:00
形式:
腾讯会议:996 438 799
主讲人简介:
Réka Juhász is Assistant Professor of Economics at the University of British Columbia. She studies industrial policy and industrialization. She is co-founder of The Industrial Policy Group, an empirical research lab that aims to deliver core empirical research surrounding industrial policy and make industrial policy a serious object of economic study. She has published papers in journals such as the American Economic Review, the Journal of Political Economy, and the Journal of Economic Perspectives.
摘要:
This paper studies technology absorption worldwide in the late nineteenth century. We construct several novel datasets to test the idea that the codification of technical knowledge in the vernacular was necessary for countries to absorb the technologies of the Industrial Revolution. We find that comparative advantage shifted to industries that could benefit from patents in countries and colonies that had access to codified technical knowledge but not in other regions. Using the rapid and unprecedented codification of technical knowledge in Meiji Japan as a natural experiment, we show that this pattern appeared in Japan only after the Japanese government codified vast amounts of technical knowledge. Our findings shed new light on the frictions associated with technology diffusion and offer a novel take on why Meiji Japan was unique among non-Western countries in successfully industrializing during the first wave of globalization.
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