% WARNING: This file may contain UTF-8 (unicode) characters. % While non-8-bit characters are officially unsupported in BibTeX, you % can use them with the biber backend of biblatex % usepackage[backend=biber]{biblatex} @techreport{NBERw8596, title = "Technology in the Great Divergence", author = "Clark, Gregory and Feenstra, Robert", institution = "National Bureau of Economic Research", type = "Working Paper", series = "Working Paper Series", number = "8596", year = "2001", month = "November", doi = {10.3386/w8596}, URL = "http://www.nber.org/papers/w8596", abstract = {In this paper, we examine the changes in per-capita income and productivity from 1700 to modern times, and show four things: (1) that incomes per capita diverged more around the world after 1800 than before; (2) that the source of this divergence was increasing differences in the efficiency of economies; (3) that these differences in efficiency were not due to problems of poor countries in getting access to the new technologies of the Industrial Revolution; (4) that the pattern of trade from the late nineteenth century between the poor and the rich economies suggests that the problem of the poor economies was peculiarly a problem of employing labor effectively. This continues to be true today.}, }