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DC Field | Value | Language |
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dc.contributor.author | Pomfret, R. | - |
dc.date.issued | 2002 | - |
dc.identifier.citation | The Journal of Economic History, 2002; 62(1):170-188 | - |
dc.identifier.issn | 0022-0507 | - |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/2440/2196 | - |
dc.description | Published online by Cambridge University Press 22 May 2002 | - |
dc.description.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. | - |
dc.description.statementofresponsibility | Richard Pomfret | - |
dc.language.iso | en | - |
dc.publisher | Cambridge Univ Press | - |
dc.rights | Copyright © 2002 The Economic History Association | - |
dc.source.uri | http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract?fromPage=online&aid=107193 | - |
dc.subject | O33 | - |
dc.subject | N55 | - |
dc.subject | O13 | - |
dc.subject | P32 | - |
dc.subject | Q16 | - |
dc.subject | technological change in agriculture | - |
dc.subject | innovation | - |
dc.title | State-directed diffusion of technology: The mechanization of cotton harvesting in Soviet Central Asia | - |
dc.type | Journal article | - |
pubs.publication-status | Published | - |
dc.identifier.orcid | Pomfret, R. [0000-0002-1950-5856] | - |
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