UNSPECIFIED (1994) TECHNOLOGICAL LEADERSHIP AND PRODUCTIVITY LEADERSHIP IN MANUFACTURING SINCE THE INDUSTRIAL-REVOLUTION - IMPLICATIONS FOR THE CONVERGENCE DEBATE. In: Annual Conference of the Royal-Economic-Society, 1993, UNIV YORK, YORK, ENGLAND.

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Abstract

The United States has been the labour productivity leader in manufacturing since the early nineteenth century despite changes in technological leadership from Britain to the United States and then to Germany and Japan. US productivity leadership is based on the more widespread use of mass production rather than craft production methods, determined by resource and factor endowments and demand patterns. The two systems can coexist so tong as the technologically lagging system imitates and adapts. Changes in the relative dynamism of the two systems explain changes in technological leadership, but without necessarily leading to changes in productivity leadership.

Item Type:	Conference Item (UNSPECIFIED)
Subjects:	H Social Sciences > HC Economic History and Conditions
Journal or Publication Title:	ECONOMIC JOURNAL
Publisher:	BLACKWELL PUBL LTD
ISSN:	0013-0133
Date:	March 1994
Volume:	104
Number:	423
Number of Pages:	12
Page Range:	pp. 291-302
Publication Status:	Published
Title of Event:	Annual Conference of the Royal-Economic-Society
Location of Event:	UNIV YORK, YORK, ENGLAND
Date(s) of Event:	1993
URI:	http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/id/eprint/20537

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