French industrialization: A reply

Answering Subcognitive Turing Test Questions: A Reply to French

Robert French has argued that a disembodied computer is incapable of passing a Turing Test that includes subcognitive questions. Subcognitive questions are designed to probe the network of cultural and perceptual associations that humans naturally develop as we live, embodied and embedded in the world. In this paper, I show how it is possible for a disembodied computer to answer subcognitive qu...

Industrialization and substitutability: a note

This paper analyzes the relationship between industrialization and technology in detail. Three main conclusions are obtained: (i) the crucial factor for the existence of a poverty trap is the degree of substitutability among intermediate inputs; (ii) the e1ects of technological progress in the manufactured good sector and the intermediate goods sector on industrialization di1er with the degree ...

The French revolution and German industrialization: dubious models and doubtful causality

We challenge the ‘big-bang’ approach to economic history offered by Acemoglu et al. (2011). The creation story in dispute is the French Revolution and the subsequent French occupation of a very small portion of Germany. We show that the four institutional reforms claimed to have spurred German industrialization have been incorrectly dated. These corrections nullify any explanatory power of the ...

The Authors’ Reply

Robotic Industrialization

The Cambridge Handbooks on Construction Robotics series focuses on the implementation of automation and robot technology to renew the construction industry and to arrest its declining productivity. The series is intended to give professionals, researchers, lecturers, and students basic conceptual and technical skills and implementation strategies to manage, research, or teach the implementation...