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American Economic Review

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

Intellectual Property Rights, the Industrial Revolution, and the Beginnings of Modern Economic Growth

  • Joel Mokyr
American Economic Review
vol. 99, no. 2, May 2009
(pp. 349–55)
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Citation

Mokyr, Joel. 2009. "Intellectual Property Rights, the Industrial Revolution, and the Beginnings of Modern Economic Growth." American Economic Review, 99 (2): 349–55. DOI: 10.1257/aer.99.2.349

JEL Classification

  • K11 Property Law
  • N10 Economic History: Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics; Growth and Fluctuations: General, International, or Comparative
  • N40 Economic History: Government, War, Law, and Regulation: General, International, or Comparative
  • N70 Economic History: Transport, International and Domestic Trade, Energy, Technology, and Other Services: General, International, or Comparative
  • O33 Technological Change: Choices and Consequences; Diffusion Processes
  • O34 Intellectual Property Rights