TY - JOUR
T1 - Beijing’s bismarckian ghosts
T2 - How great powers compete economically
AU - Brunnermeier, Markus
AU - Doshi, Rush
AU - James, Harold
N1 - Funding Information:
In the late nineteenth century, the Italian engineer Guglielmo Marconi, supported by the British Royal Navy, created a radio network that gave Britain a monopoly over radio transmissions. When combined with Britain’s 60 percent share of the world’s undersea cable network, Britain dominated international transmissions. Feeling vulnerable, Kaiser Wilhelm II authorized direct state support for German scientists and engineers as they success- fully copied Marconi’s designs, patented them within Germany, and built their own radio networks financed by contracts with the German military.11 Even so, Marconi’s superior longer-range radio and first-mover advantage established his British-backed company as the global standard, and Marconi lever- aged these network effects to pursue a policy of “non-intercommunication” with non-Marconi radio operators. German businesses and ocean liners did not want to be cut off from global communication, so they preferred the British-backed system to German ones, marginalizing the initial German product.
PY - 2018/7/3
Y1 - 2018/7/3
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U2 - 10.1080/0163660X.2018.1520571
DO - 10.1080/0163660X.2018.1520571
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85054197878
SN - 0163-660X
VL - 41
SP - 161
EP - 176
JO - Washington Quarterly
JF - Washington Quarterly
IS - 3
ER -