Technology Locks, Creative Destruction, and Nonconvergence in Productivity Levels

Review of Economic Dynamics

Volumn 1, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 430-473

  Dwyer, Douglas W ^a  

^a William M Mercer Inc   (United States)

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EID: 0009429977     PISSN: 10942025     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/redy.1998.0010     Document Type: Article

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