Paul A David
Ph.D., Harvard University, F.B.A., Fellow of Econometric Society, Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Professor of Economics and Economic History, Fellow of the Oxford Internet Institute
College or Institution: All Souls College
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Research Interests
Summary: Economic history, with special reference to modern economic growth in the North Atlantic region; economics of science and technology.
Economic history, with special reference to modern economic growth in the North Atlantic region; economics of science and technology, economics of information technologies and networks; theory and empirics of non-ergodic dynamical processes in economics.
Research Group(s)
Recent Working Papers
- The Demography of an Early Mortality Transition: Life Expectancy, Survival and Mortality Rates for Britain's Royals, 1500-1799 (2010)
- From Keeping Natures Secrets to the Institutionalization of Open Science (2001)
- Heart of Darnkess: Public-Private Interactions Inside the R and D Black Box (1999)
- General Purpose Technologies and Surges in Productivity: Historical Reflections on the Future of the ICT Revolution (1999)
- Early Twentieth Century Productivity Growth Dynamics: An Inquiry into the Economic History of Our Ignorance (1999)
- Path Dependence and the Quest for Historical Economics: One More chorus of Ballad of QWERTY (1997)
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Other Web Sites:
Paul David’s Stanford University profile
Category: Economists in other Oxford Departments