Publications

Books

Economic Transformations: General Purpose Technologies and Economic Growth, (with Richard Lipsey and Kenneth Carlaw). Oxford: Oxford University Press (2005). Winner of 2006 Schumpeter Prize for best work on Innovation and Economic Growth.

 

Articles

"Risk, Asset Markets and Inequality: Evidence from Medieval England," (with Clyde Reed) University of Oxford, Discussion Papers in Economic and Social History, Number 79 (October 2009).

“Signaling Risk Tolerance: Nuclear Arsenals and Alliance Formation in the Cold War,” (with Greg Dow, Clyde Reed,  and Josh Stine) Conference Volume in Honour of Curtis Eaton, Toronto: University of Toronto Press (2009).

“Teaching Economics Principles Through the Novel: Richard Powers Gain,” (with James Grant), Perspectives in Economic Education (forthcoming).

"Information Technology and the New University," (with Richard Lipsey) Academic Matters: Journal of Higher Education (winter, 2006).

“Science, Institutions, and the Industrial Revolution,” (with Richard Lipsey) Journal of European Economic History. Vol. 33, No. 3 (2004): 709-753.

“Open Fields, Risk, and Land Divisibility,” (with Clyde Reed) Explorations in Economic History. Vol. 40, No. 3 (2003): 308-325.

“Religious Prohibitions Against Usury,” (with Clyde Reed) Explorations in Economic History. Vol. 40, No. 4 (2003): 347-368.

“Clusters and Economic Policy,” (with Richard Lipsey) ISUMA: Journal of Canadian Public Policy (2002).

“Scattering as Insurance: A Robust Explanation of Open Fields?” Research in Economic History, Vol. 20 (2001): 173-221.

“Income Sharing Amongst Medieval Peasants,” International Institute of Economics and Trade, Conference Proceedings (2000).

“General Purpose Technologies: What Requires Explanation?”(with Richard Lipsey and Kenneth Carlaw) in General Purpose Technologies, edited by Helpman, E.. MIT Press: Cambridge (1998).

“The Consequences of Changes in GPTs,” (with Richard Lipsey and Kenneth Carlaw) in General Purpose Technologies, edited by Helpman, E.. MIT Press: Cambridge (1998).

“A Structuralist View of Technical Change and Economic Growth.” (with Richard Lipsey) Reprinted in Microeconomics, Growth and Political Economy: The Selected Essays of Richard Lipsey Vol. One. Edward Elgar: Cheltenham, UK (1997).

“A Structuralist View of Technical Change and Economic Growth,” (with Richard Lipsey) Bell Canada Papers on Economic and Public Policy, Vol. 3; Technology, Information and Public Policy: John Deutsch Institute for the Study of Economic Policy; Queens University (1995).