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Gavin Wright

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Working papers

  1. Robert M Stern & Gavin Wright & Hugh Patrick, 2009. "Introduction and Overview to Volumes I and II, The Japanese Economy in Retrospect: Selected Papers by Gary R. Saxonhouse," Working Papers 586, Research Seminar in International Economics, University of Michigan. [Downloadable!]

  2. Gavin Wright, 2008. "Historical Foundations of American Technology," Economics Program Working Papers 08-10, The Conference Board, Economics Program. [Downloadable!]

  3. Paul A. David & Gavin Wright, 2005. "General Purpose Technologies and Productivity Surges: Historical Reflections on the Future of the ICT Revolution," Economic History 0502002, EconWPA. [Downloadable!]

  4. Gavin Wright & Jesse Czelusta, 2002. "Exorcizing the Resource Curse: Minerals as a Knowledge Industry, Past and Present," Working Papers 02008, Stanford University, Department of Economics. [Downloadable!]

  5. Christopher L. Foote & Warren C. Whatley & Gavin Wright, 2001. "Arbitraging a Discriminatory Labor Market: Black Workers at the Ford Motor Company, 1918-1947," Working Papers 01009, Stanford University, Department of Economics. [Downloadable!]
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  6. Gavin Wright, 2000. "The Role of Nationhood in the Economic Development of the USA," Working Papers 00024, Stanford University, Department of Economics. [Downloadable!]

  7. Paul A. David & Gavin Wright, 1999. "Early Twentieth Century Productivity Growth Dynamics: An Inquiry into the Economic History of "Our Ignorance"," Oxford University Economic and Social History Series _033, Economics Group, Nuffield College, University of Oxford. [Downloadable!]
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  8. Gavin Wright, 1997. "Can a Nation Learn? American Technology as a Network Phenomenon," Working Papers 98001, Stanford University, Department of Economics. [Downloadable!]
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  9. David ,Paul A. & Wright ,Gavin, 1995. "The origins of American resource abundance," Research Memoranda 017, Maastricht : MERIT, Maastricht Economic Research Institute on Innovation and Technology. [Downloadable!]

  10. Gavin Wright, . "Slavery and American Agricultural History," Working Papers 03006, Stanford University, Department of Economics.

  11. Paul A. David & Gavin Wright, . "General Purpose Technologies and Surges in Productivity: Historical Reflections on the Future of the ICT Revolution," Working Papers 99026, Stanford University, Department of Economics. [Downloadable!]
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  12. Gavin Wright, . "The Economics of Civil Rights," Working Papers 03005, Stanford University, Department of Economics.

Articles

  1. Wright, Gavin, 2009. "The Race Between Education and Technology. By Claudia Goldin and Lawrence F. Katz. Cambridge, MA: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2008. Pp. vi, 488. $39.95, cloth," The Journal of Economic History, Cambridge University Press, vol. 69(02), pages 604-606, June. [Downloadable!]

  2. Clay, Karen & Wright, Gavin, 2005. "Order without law? Property rights during the California gold rush," Explorations in Economic History, Elsevier, vol. 42(2), pages 155-183, April. [Downloadable!] (restricted)

  3. Gavin Wright & Jesse Czelusta, 2004. "WHY ECONOMIES SLOW: The Myth of the Resource Curse," Challenge, M.E. Sharpe, Inc., vol. 47(2), pages 6-38, March. [Downloadable!] (restricted)

  4. Harley, Knick & Wright, Gavin, 2004. "Editors' Notes," The Journal of Economic History, Cambridge University Press, vol. 64(01), pages 240-246, March. [Downloadable!]

  5. Wright, Gavin, 2004. "The Oxford Encyclopedia of Economic History. Edited by Joel Mokyr, Editor in Chief. Five Volumes. Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press, 2003. Pp. 2,800. $695," The Journal of Economic History, Cambridge University Press, vol. 64(04), pages 1157-1159, December. [Downloadable!]

  6. Christopher L. Foote & Warren C. Whatley & Gavin Wright, 2003. "Arbitraging a Discriminatory Labor Market: Black Workers at the Ford Motor Company, 19181947," Journal of Labor Economics, University of Chicago Press, vol. 21(3), pages 493-532, July. [Downloadable!]
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  7. Wright, Gavin, 2001. "GENERAL AND MISCELLANEOUS Coercion, Contract, and Free Labor in the Nineteenth Century. By Robert J. Steinfeld. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001. Pp. xi, 329. $59.95, cloth; $22.95, paper," The Journal of Economic History, Cambridge University Press, vol. 61(03), pages 865-866, September. [Downloadable!]

  8. David, Paul & Wright, Gavin, 2001. "Session 5a: Productivity," The Journal of Economic History, Cambridge University Press, vol. 61(02), pages 523-523, June. [Downloadable!]

  9. Wright, Gavin, 2001. "Reflections on One Kind of Freedom and the Southern Economy," Explorations in Economic History, Elsevier, vol. 38(1), pages 40-47, January. [Downloadable!] (restricted)

  10. David, Paul & Wright, Gavin, 2001. "In Memoriam Moses Abramovitz 1912 2000," The Journal of Economic History, Cambridge University Press, vol. 61(01), pages 190-196, March. [Downloadable!]

  11. Wright, Gavin, 2000. "Lost Revolutions: The South in the 1950s. By Pete Daniel. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press for Smithsonian National Museum of American History, 2000. Pp. xii, 378. $45.00, cloth; $19.95," The Journal of Economic History, Cambridge University Press, vol. 60(04), pages 1166-1167, December. [Downloadable!]

  12. Wright, Gavin, 1999. "The Civil Rights Revolution as Economic History," The Journal of Economic History, Cambridge University Press, vol. 59(02), pages 267-289, June. [Downloadable!]

  13. Wright, Gavin, 1999. "United States and Canada Region, Race, and Cities: Interpreting the Urban South. By David Goldfield. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1997. Pp. 309. $37.50, cloth; $16.95, paper," The Journal of Economic History, Cambridge University Press, vol. 59(01), pages 229-230, March. [Downloadable!]

  14. Wright, Gavin, 1998. "?Fear God and Walk Humbly?: The Agricultural Journal of James Mallory, 1843?1877. Edited by Grady McWhiney, Warner O. Moore Jr., and Robert F. Pace. Tuscaloosa: The University of Alabama Press, 1997. ," The Journal of Economic History, Cambridge University Press, vol. 58(01), pages 282-283, March. [Downloadable!]

  15. David, Paul A & Wright, Gavin, 1997. "Increasing Returns and the Genesis of American Resource Abundance," Industrial and Corporate Change, Oxford University Press, vol. 6(2), pages 203-45, March.

  16. Wright, Gavin, 1997. "Towards a More Historical Approach to Technological Change," Economic Journal, Royal Economic Society, vol. 107(444), pages 1560-66, September. [Downloadable!] (restricted)

  17. Nelson, Richard R & Wright, Gavin, 1992. "The Rise and Fall of American Technological Leadership: The Postwar Era in Historical Perspective," Journal of Economic Literature, American Economic Association, vol. 30(4), pages 1931-64, December. [Downloadable!] (restricted)

  18. Wright, Gavin, 1991. "Understanding the Gender Gap: A Review Article," Journal of Economic Literature, American Economic Association, vol. 29(3), pages 1153-63, September. [Downloadable!] (restricted)

  19. Wright, Gavin, 1990. "Encyclopedia of Southern Culture. Edited by Charles Reagan Wilson and William Ferris. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 1989. Pp. xxi, 1634. $59.95," The Journal of Economic History, Cambridge University Press, vol. 50(01), pages 215-217, March. [Downloadable!]

  20. Wright, Gavin, 1990. "The Origins of American Industrial Success, 1879-1940," American Economic Review, American Economic Association, vol. 80(4), pages 651-68, September. [Downloadable!] (restricted)

  21. Wright, Gavin, 1988. "The Fall of the House of Labor: The Workplace, the State, and American Labor Activism, 1865?1925. By David Montgomery. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1987. Pp. xii, 494. $27.95," The Journal of Economic History, Cambridge University Press, vol. 48(02), pages 501-503, June. [Downloadable!]

  22. Wright, Gavin, 1987. "Rural Worlds Lost: The American South, 1920?1960. By Jack Temple Kirby. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1987. Pp. xix, 390. $40.00 cloth, $16.95 paper," The Journal of Economic History, Cambridge University Press, vol. 47(03), pages 851-852, September. [Downloadable!]

  23. Wright, Gavin, 1987. "The Economic Revolution in the American South," Journal of Economic Perspectives, American Economic Association, vol. 1(1), pages 161-78, Summer. [Downloadable!] (restricted)

  24. Wright, Gavin, 1986. "New Perspectives on Race and Slavery in America: Essays in Honor of Kenneth M. Stampp. Edited by Robert H. Abzug and Stephen E. Maizlish. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1986. Pp. ix, 206. $1," The Journal of Economic History, Cambridge University Press, vol. 46(04), pages 1064-1065, December. [Downloadable!]

  25. Wright, Gavin, 1984. "Fruits of Merchant Capital: Slavery and Bourgeois Property in the Rise and Expansion of Capitalism. By Elizabeth Fox-Genovese and Eugene D. Genovese. New York: Oxford University Press, 1983. Pp. xxii,," The Journal of Economic History, Cambridge University Press, vol. 44(02), pages 631-632, June. [Downloadable!]

  26. Shiells, Martha & Wright, Gavin, 1983. "Night work as a labor market phenomenon: Southern textiles in the interwar period," Explorations in Economic History, Elsevier, vol. 20(4), pages 331-350, October. [Downloadable!] (restricted)

  27. Wright, Gavin, 1982. "The Selling of the South: The Southern Crusade for Industrial Development, 1936?1980. By James C. Cobb. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1982. Pp. xii, 293. $16.95," The Journal of Economic History, Cambridge University Press, vol. 42(04), pages 969-970, December. [Downloadable!]

  28. Wright, Gavin, 1981. "Cheap Labor and Southern Textiles, 1880-1930," The Quarterly Journal of Economics, MIT Press, vol. 96(4), pages 605-29, November. [Downloadable!] (restricted)

  29. Wright, Gavin, 1981. "Black Migration in America: A Special Demographic History. By Daniel M. Johnson and Rex R. Campbell. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 1981. Pp. viii, 190. $16.75 cloth, $8.95 paper," The Journal of Economic History, Cambridge University Press, vol. 41(04), pages 927-928, December. [Downloadable!]

  30. Wright, Gavin, 1979. "Freedom and the Southern economy," Explorations in Economic History, Elsevier, vol. 16(1), pages 90-108, January. [Downloadable!] (restricted)

  31. Wright, Gavin, 1979. "The Efficiency of Slavery: Another Interpretation," American Economic Review, American Economic Association, vol. 69(1), pages 219-26, March. [Downloadable!] (restricted)

  32. Wright, Gavin & Kunreuther, Howard, 1977. "Cotton, corn, and risk in the nineteenth century: A reply," Explorations in Economic History, Elsevier, vol. 14(2), pages 183-195, April. [Downloadable!] (restricted)

  33. Wright, Gavin, 1975. "Slavery and the cotton boom," Explorations in Economic History, Elsevier, vol. 12(4), pages 439-451, October. [Downloadable!] (restricted)

  34. Wright, Gavin, 1974. "The Political Economy of New Deal Spending: An Econometric Analysis," The Review of Economics and Statistics, MIT Press, vol. 56(1), pages 30-38, February. [Downloadable!] (restricted)

  35. Passell, Peter & Wright, Gavin, 1972. "The Effects of Pre-Civil War Territorial Expansion on the Price of Slaves," Journal of Political Economy, University of Chicago Press, vol. 80(6), pages 1188-1202, Nov.-Dec.. [Downloadable!] (restricted)

  36. Wright, Gavin, 1971. "An Econometric Study of Cotton Production and Trade, 1830-1860," The Review of Economics and Statistics, MIT Press, vol. 53(2), pages 111-20, May. [Downloadable!] (restricted)

  37. RePEc:cup:jechis:v:64:y:2005:i:04:p:1157-1159_36 is not listed on IDEAS

  38. RePEc:cup:jechis:v:61:y:2002:i:03:p:865-866_00 is not listed on IDEAS

Chapters

  1. Gavin Wright, 1999. "Can a Nation Learn? American Technology as a Network Phenomenon," NBER Chapters, in: Learning by Doing in Markets, Firms, and Countries, pages 295-332 National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc. [Downloadable!]
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NEP Fields

7 papers by this author were announced in NEP, and specifically in the following field reports (number of papers):
  1. NEP-DEV: Development (2) 1999-10-20 2001-04-11 Author is listed
  2. NEP-ENE: Energy Economics (1) 2002-09-28
  3. NEP-HIS: Business, Economic & Financial History (4) 1999-10-20 2005-04-16 2005-04-16 2009-05-02 Author is listed
  4. NEP-INO: Innovation (2) 2005-04-16 2009-05-02 Author is listed
  5. NEP-MAC: Macroeconomics (1) 2005-04-16
  6. NEP-TID: Technology & Industrial Dynamics (1) 1999-10-20
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