Professor David E. Weinstein, CJEB's Director, co-authored a paper titled "Codification, Technology Absorption, and the Globalization of the Industrial Revolution." The paper explores Japan's massive public investments in codifying technical knowledge to explain why it was unique among non-Western countries in industrializing in the 19th and early 20th centuries.
The National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) includes it as a working paper and shared it on X here. Tremendous interest in the paper's topic has led to widespread viewing and sharing across social media, with over 25.1 million views listed on posts shared by its co-authors as of July 23, 2024.
The paper's co-authors include Réka Juhász, Shogo Sakabe (Columbia University graduate and recipient of CJEB's Doctoral Fellowship), and David Weinstein.
The paper is also listed among CJEB's working papers and hosted on the Columbia Academic Commons here.
