Conceptualization of Learning by Doing: A Note on Paul David's “Learning by Doing and … the Ante-Bellum United States Cotton Textile Industry”
- 1 December 1973
- journal article
- other
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in The Journal of Economic History
- Vol. 33 (4) , 851-861
- https://doi.org/10.1017/s0022050700079249
Abstract
The application of the notion of learning by doing to account for the measured input efficiency growth of an aggregation of production units admittedly creates worrisome ambiguities about exactly what was being “learned,” how, and by whom. (David, p. 562)Keywords
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