Market Trade in Patents and the Rise of a Class of Specialized Inventors in the 19th-Century United States by Naomi R. Lamoreaux and Kenneth L. Sokoloff. Published in volume 91, issue 2, pages 39-44 of American Economic Review, May 2001
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