Gerben Bakker is Associate Professor of Economic History at the London School of Economics. His main field of interest is the long-run analysis of innovation within firms and industries and its effect on over-all productivity growth. He has completed four award-winning research programmes on the history of the live entertainment, the motion picture and music industries, and on the trade in news. He has also acted as a Specialist Advisor for the House of Lords and as a consultant for the Department of Business. He is currently working on the long-run evolution of firms’ research and development outlays and on the role of particular industries in aggregate economic growth.
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Onwards and upwards: American productivity growth during the Great Depression
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