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American Economic Review

ISSN 0002-8282 (Print) | ISSN 1944-7981 (Online)

Was Electricity a General Purpose Technology? Evidence from Historical Patent Citations

  • Petra Moser
  • Tom Nicholas
American Economic Review
vol. 94, no. 2, May 2004
(pp. 388–394)
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Citation

Moser, Petra, and Tom Nicholas. 2004. "Was Electricity a General Purpose Technology? Evidence from Historical Patent Citations." American Economic Review, 94 (2): 388–394. DOI: 10.1257/0002828041301407

JEL Classification

  • L94 Electric Utilities
  • N32 Economic History: Labor and Consumers, Demography, Education, Health, Welfare, Income, Wealth, Religion, and Philanthropy: U.S.; Canada: 1913-
  • O34 Intellectual Property and Intellectual Capital