Working paper
'Technological lock-in' and the power source for the motor car
- Abstract:
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As the nineteenth century ended, three principal types of engine competed to power the early motor car. Had some minor condition been different around the beginning of the twentieth century, perhaps therefore today's road vehicles would not be powered overwhelmingly by internal combustion engines. That at least is an implication of the "lock-in" hypothesis. However the choice of product technology depended not on chance but at first on differential relative endowments of natural resources and...
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- Publication status:
- Published
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- Publisher:
- University of Oxford Publisher's website
- Series:
- Oxford Economic and Social History Working Papers
- Article number:
- 7
- Place of publication:
- Oxford
- Publication date:
- 1996-05-01
- Paper number:
- 7
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- Language:
- English
- Pubs id:
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1167888
- Local pid:
- pubs:1167888
- Deposit date:
- 2021-03-15
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- Copyright holder:
- James Foreman-Peck
- Copyright date:
- 1996
- Rights statement:
- © 1996 The Author(s).
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