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Type: | Journal article |
Title: | State-directed diffusion of technology: The mechanization of cotton harvesting in Soviet Central Asia |
Author: | Pomfret, R. |
Citation: | The Journal of Economic History, 2002; 62(1):170-188 |
Publisher: | Cambridge Univ Press |
Issue Date: | 2002 |
ISSN: | 0022-0507 |
Statement of Responsibility: | Richard Pomfret |
Abstract: | When Soviet central planners began to mechanize the cotton harvest in earnest in 1958, they expected more rapid diffusion than the market-driven process that had begun in the United States a decade earlier. But despite high output of cotton-picking machines, the share of the crop harvested mechanically grew more slowly than in the United States. The factor proportions in Central Asia did not justify mechanization: although planners could enforce introduction of the new technology, investment in cotton-harvesting machines was largely a waste of resources. The costs of premature introduction are estimated at over $1 billion in 1960s prices. |
Keywords: | O33 N55 O13 P32 Q16 technological change in agriculture innovation |
Description: | Published online by Cambridge University Press 22 May 2002 |
Rights: | Copyright © 2002 The Economic History Association |
Published version: | http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract?fromPage=online&aid=107193 |
Appears in Collections: | Aurora harvest 6 Economics publications |
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