C. Knick Harley - Researcher Profile

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Ocean Freight Rates and Productivity, 1740–1913: The Primacy of Mechanical Invention Reaffirmed

C. Knick Harley

This article demonstrates that new industrial technology caused a revolutionary decline in nineteenth-century freight rates. This overturns Douglass North's well-known conclusio...

1988 The Journal of Economic History 340 citations

On the Persistence of Old Techniques: The Case of North American Wooden Shipbuilding

C. Knick Harley

During the second half of the nineteenth century important technological changes in shipping and shipbuilding resulted in the practical disappearance of an important shipbuildin...

1973 The Journal of Economic History 41 citations

Researcher Info

h-index: 2
Publications: 2
Citations: 381
Institution: Western University

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