というNBER論文が上がっている(H/T Mostly Economics、ungated版)。原題は「Innovation Networks in the Industrial Revolution」で、著者はLukas Rosenberger(ルートヴィヒ・マクシミリアン大学ミュンヘン)、W. Walker Hanlon(ノースウエスタン大)、Carl Hallmann(同)。 以下はその要旨。 How did Britain sustain faster rates of economic growth than comparable European countries, such as France, during the Industrial Revolution? We argue that Britain possessed an important but underap