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Enterprise and Society Advance Access published online on April 4, 2008
Enterprise and Society, doi:10.1093/es/khn029
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© The Author 2008. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Business History Conference. All rights reserved. For permissions, please e-mail: journals.permissions@oupjournals.org.

Espen Moe. Governance, Growth and Global Leadership: The Role of the State in Technological Progress, 1750–2000.

Aldershot, UK: Ashgate Publishing, 2007.xii + 308 pp. ISBN 978-0-7546-5743-9, $99.95.

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There is a lot of literature on the relationship between technological change, economic growth, and changing global leadership. Abramovitz (1989), on the side of economics, and Kindleberger (1996) and Landes (1969) as economic historians, showed how technological change shapes economic, social, and global leadership, describing the rise and fall of Venice, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, and finally the United States as technological and political leaders in the world since the sixteenth century. In their view, the mechanism of this change was essentially . . . [Full Text of this Article]

Renato Giannetti

Universita di Firenze


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