Power and Profit: The Merchant in Medieval Europe

By P. Spufford. 2003

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Invention in the city: Increasing returns to patenting as a scaling function of metropolitan size (2007, unknown): “innovations – intellectual and material, cultural and political, institutional and organizational – has been well documented by historians, urbanists, geographers, anthropologists and regional economists (Mumford, 1968; Pred, 1973; Jacobs, 1984; Hawley, 1986; Bairoch, 1988; Mokyr, 2002; Braudel, 199”
Activity Spaces, Biographies, Social Networks and their Welfare Gains and Externalities: Some Hypotheses and Empirical Results (2005, background): “The accelerated shrinking of distance through infrastructure additions allowing everincreasing sustained speeds has now been going on for 200 years – see Grübler (1998, 1999) for the period since 1800, but Spufford (2002) or de Vries and van der Woude (1997) for earlier periods.”
Metropolitan patenting, inventor agglomeration and social networks: A tale of two effects (2008, background): “…and innovations intellectual and material, cultural and political, institutional and organizational is well documented by historiographical work (see for example Bairoch 1988, Braudel 1992, Hall 1998, Jacobs 1984, Landes 1999, Mokyr 2002, Mumford 1968, Rosenberg and Birdzell 1986, Spufford 2003).”