Bakker, Gerben

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  • Bakker, Gerben (2021). Infrastructure killed the electric car. Nature Energy, 6(10), 947 - 948. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41560-021-00902-w picture_as_pdf
  • Bakker, Gerben, Crafts, Nicholas, Woltjer, Pieter (2019). The sources of growth in a technologically progressive economy: the United States, 1899‐1941. The Economic Journal, 129(622), 2267 - 2294. https://doi.org/10.1093/ej/uez002
  • Bakker, Gerben (2013). Money for nothing: how firms have financed R&D-projects since the industrial revolution. Research Policy, 42(10), 1793-1814. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.respol.2013.07.017
  • Bakker, Gerben (2012). How motion pictures industrialized entertainment. Journal of Economic History, 72(4), 1036-1063. https://doi.org/10.1017/S002205071200068X
  • Bakker, Gerben (2011). Adopting the rights-based model: music multinationals and local music industries since 1945. Popular Music History, 6(3), 307-343.
  • Bakker, Gerben (2011). Book review: from betamax to blockbuster: video stores and the invention of movies on video. Business History, 53(3), 472-474. https://doi.org/10.1080/00076791.2011.563564
  • Bakker, Gerben (2010). Bedrijfsstrategieën, overheidsbeleid en de Europese filmmarkt tijdens het Interbellum. Tijdschrift Voor Mediageschiedenis, 2, 13-36.
  • Bakker, Gerben (2010). Book review: creative urban milieus: historical perspectives on culture, economy, and the city. Economic History Review, 63(2), 567-568. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-0289.2009.00519_35.x
  • Bakker, Gerben (2010). Book review: Wellcome & co.: knowledge, trust, profit and the transformation of the British pharmaceutical industry, 1880-1940. Medical History, 54(2), 260-261. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0025727300006773
  • Bakker, Gerben (2010). Book review: global experience industries: the business of the experience economy - by Jens Christensen. Business History Review, 84(3), 625-626. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0007680500002506
  • Bakker, Gerben (2010). Book review: networks of entertainment: early film distribution, 1895-1915. Business History Review, 84(1), 172-174. https://doi.org/10.1017/S000768050000146X
  • Bakker, Gerben (2010). Book review: the invention of enterprise: entrepreneurship from ancient Mesopotamia to modern times. Business Economist, 41(2), 68-39.
  • Bakker, Gerben (2007). Book review: the entertainment industry. Eh.Net, Online,
  • Bakker, Gerben (2007). The evolution of entertainment consumption and the emergence of cinema 1890-1940. Advances in Austrian Economics, 10, 93-137. https://doi.org/10.1016/S1529-2134(07)10005-3
  • Bakker, Gerben (2006). The making of a music multinational: Polygram's international businesses, 1945-1998. Business History Review, 80(1), 81-123. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0007680500080995
  • Bakker, Gerben (2005). The decline and fall of the European film industry: sunk costs, market size, and market structure, 1890–1927. Economic History Review, 58(2), 310-351. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-0289.2005.00306.x
  • Bakker, Gerben (2005). Book review: playback: from the victrola to MP3: 100 years of music, machines and money. Business History, 47(2), p. 324. https://doi.org/10.1080/00076790420003136893a
  • Bakker, Gerben (2005). Book review: the consumer trap: big business marketing in American life. Business History, 47(1), 143-144. https://doi.org/10.1080/0007679042000267514
  • Bakker, Gerben (2005). The economic history of the international film industry. Eh.Net,
  • Bakker, Gerben (2004). Selling French films on foreign markets: the international strategy of a medium-sized film company. Enterprise and Society, 5(1), 45-76. https://doi.org/10.1093/es/khh003
  • Bakker, Gerben (2004). Book review: quarter notes and bank notes: the economics of music composition in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Economic History Review, 57(4), 796-797. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-0289.2004.00295_23.x
  • Bakker, Gerben (2004). Book review: retooling: a historian confronts technological change. Business History, 46(1), 132-133. https://doi.org/10.1080/00076790412331270149
  • Bakker, Gerben (2003). Entertainment industrialised: the emergence of the international film industry 1890-1940. Enterprise and Society, 4(4), 579-585. https://doi.org/10.1093/es/khg044
  • Bakker, Gerben (2003). Building knowledge about the consumer: the emergence of market research in the motion picture industry. Business History, 45(1), 101-127. https://doi.org/10.1080/713999299
  • Bakker, Gerben (2003). Book review: Hollywood's film wars with France: film-trade diplomacy and the emergence of the French film quota policy. Business History, 45(1), 182-183. https://doi.org/10.1080/713999295
  • Bakker, Gerben (2003). Book review: family, family firm and strategy: six Dutch family firms in the food industry, 1880-1970. Business History, 45(2), 106-107. https://doi.org/10.1080/713999310
  • Bakker, Gerben (2002). Book review: engulfed: the death of Paramount Pictures and the birth of corporate Hollywood. Business History, 44(3), 146-147. https://doi.org/10.1080/713999281
  • Bakker, Gerben (2002). Book review: technological change and the evolution of corporate innovation: the structure of patenting, 1890-1990. Business History, 44(3), 144-145. https://doi.org/10.1080/713999281
  • Bakker, Gerben (2002). Book review: painting outside the lines: patterns of creativity in modern art. Enterprise and Society, 3(4), 735-737. https://doi.org/10.1093/es/3.4.735
  • Bakker, Gerben (2001). The enclosed economy: how public goods splinter into private properties. EUI Review, (Spring), 20-26.
  • Bakker, Gerben (2001). Book review: In het wereldfilmstelsel: identiteit en organisatie van de Nederlandse film sedert 1945. Bijdragen En Mededelingen Betreffende de Geschiedenis der Nederlanden, 116, 429-431.
  • Bakker, Gerben (2001). Book review: Kodak and the lens of nostalgia. Business History, 43(4), 153-155. https://doi.org/10.1080/713999244
  • Bakker, Gerben (2001). Book review: Wall Street to Main Street: Charles Merrill and middle class investors. Financial History Review, 8(2), 231-243. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0968565001230261
  • Bakker, Gerben (2001). Book review: the red rooster scare: making cinema American, 1900-1910. Business History, 43(3), 160-161. https://doi.org/10.1080/713999231
  • Bakker, Gerben (2001). Book review: the second century of cinema: the past and future of the moving image. Business History, 43(1), 161-162. https://doi.org/10.1080/713999212
  • Bakker, Gerben (2001). Richard E. Caves. Creative Industries: Contracts between Art and Commerce. Cambridge, Mass.:Harvard University Press, 2000. ix 454 pp. ISBN 0-674-00164-8, $45.00. - Lary May. The Big Tomorrow: Hollywood and the Politics of the American Way. Chicago:University of Chicago Press, 2000. xvi 348 pp. ISBN 0-226-51162-6, $32.50. Enterprise and Society, 2(2), 392-395. https://doi.org/10.1093/es/2.2.392
  • Bakker, Gerben (2001). Stars and stories: how films became branded products. Enterprise and Society, 2(3), 461-502. https://doi.org/10.1093/es/2.3.461
  • Bakker, Gerben (2000). American dreams: the European film industry from dominance to decline. EUI Review, (Summer), 28-36.
  • Bakker, Gerben (2000). Book review: Vom Flügeltelegraphen zum Internet. Geschichte der modernen Telekommunikation. Business History, 42(3), 172-174. https://doi.org/10.1080/00076790000000286
  • Bakker, Gerben (2000). Book review: an international history of the recording industry. Business History, 42(4), 222-223. https://doi.org/10.1080/00076790000000338
  • Bakker, Gerben (1993). Book review: Oorlogsdocumentatie ’40-45: Vierde Jaarboek van het Rijksinstituut voor Oorlogsdocumentatie. Groniek, 27(122), p. 109.
    • Book
  • Bakker, Gerben (2008). Entertainment industrialised: the emergence of the international film industry. Cambridge University Press.
    • Chapter
  • Bakker, Gerben (2015). Sunk costs and the dynamics of creative industries. In Jones, C., Lorenzen, M. & Sapsed, J. (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Creative Industries (pp. 351-386). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199603510.013.021
  • Bakker, Gerben (2015). Paying for crisis news: the dilemmas of news organizations. In Schifferes, S. & Roberts, R. (Eds.), The Media and Financial Crises: Comparative and Historical Perspectives (pp. 187-200). Routledge. picture_as_pdf
  • Bakker, Gerben (2014). Soft power: the media industries in Britain since 1870. In Floud, R., Humphries, J. & Johnson, P. (Eds.), The Cambridge Economic History of Modern Britain (pp. 416-447). Cambridge University Press.
  • Bakker, Gerben (2012). The quality race: feature films and market dominance in the United States and Europe in the 1910s. In Neal, S. (Ed.), The Classical Hollywood Reader . Routledge.
  • Bakker, Gerben (2012). Trade Follows the Film: Europe versus Hollywood in the Interwar Years. In Eisenberg, C. & Gestrich, A. (Eds.), Cultural Industries in Britain and Germany: Sport, Music and Entertainment From the Eighteenth to the Twentieth Century (pp. 139-155). Wißner-Verlag.
  • Bakker, Gerben (2011). Leisure time and structure of household entertainment expenditure, 1890-1940. In Cameron, S. (Ed.), Handbook on the Economics of Leisure . Edward Elgar.
  • Bakker, Gerben (2011). Trading facts: Arrow's fundamental paradox and the origins of global news networks. In Putnis, P., Kaul, C. & Wilke, J. (Eds.), International Communication and Global News Networks: Historical Perspectives (pp. 9-53). Hampton Publishing.
  • Bakker, Gerben (2011). Leisure time, cinema and the structure of household entertainment expenditure, 1890-1940. In Cameron, S. (Ed.), Handbook on the Economics of Leisure (pp. 315-356). Edward Elgar.
  • Bakker, Gerben (2004). America's master: the European film industry in the United States, 1907-1920. In Sedgwick, J. & Pokorny, M. (Eds.), An Economic History of Film (pp. 24-47). Routledge.
  • Bakker, Gerben (2004). The European film industry in the United States. In Sedgwick, J. & Pokorny, M. (Eds.), An Economic History of Film (pp. 48-85). Routledge.
  • Bakker, Gerben (2004). How films became branded products. In Sedgwick, J. & Pokorny, M. (Eds.), An Economic History of Film (pp. 24-47). Routledge.
  • Bakker, Gerben (2004). Stars and stories: how films became branded products. In Sedgwick, J. & Pokorny, M. (Eds.), An Economic History of Film (pp. 48-85). Routledge.
  • Bakker, Gerben (2003). The emergence of market research in the motion picture industry. In Godley, A. & Church, R. A. (Eds.), The Emergence of Modern Marketing . Routledge.
  • Bakker, Gerben (2000). America's master: the decline and fall of the European film industry in the United States. In Passerini, L. (Ed.), Across the Atlantic (pp. 213-240). Presses Interuniversitaires Europeennes.
    • Working paper
  • Bakker, Gerben (2025). The terminal revolution: Reuters and Bloomberg as global providers of financial and economic news, 1960-2020. (Economic History Working Papers 384). London School of Economics and Political Science. picture_as_pdf
  • Bakker, Gerben, Crafts, Nicholas, Woltjer, Pieter (2017). The sources of growth in a technologically progressive economy: the United States, 1899-1941. (Economic History working papers 269/2017). London School of Economics and Political Science.
  • Bakker, Gerben, Crafts, Nicholas, Woltjer, Pieter (2015). A vision of the growth process in a technologically progressive economy: the United States, 1899-1941. (Economic History working papers 226/2015). London School of Economics and Political Science.
  • Bakker, Gerben (2014). How they made news pay: news traders’ quest for crisis-resistant business models. (Economic History Working Paper Series 206/2014). London School of Economics and Political Science.
  • Bakker, Gerben (2014). Soft power: the media industries in Britain since 1870. (Economic History Working Paper Series 200/2014). London School of Economics and Political Science.
  • Bakker, Gerben (2013). Money for nothing: how firms have financed R&D-projects since the Industrial Revolution. (Economic History working paper series 182/2013). Department of Economic History, The London School of Economics and Political Science.
  • Bakker, Gerben (2012). Sunk costs and the dynamics of creative industries. (Economic History working papers 172/12). Department of Economic History, London School of Economics and Political Science.
  • Bakker, Gerben (2012). Adopting the rights-based model: music multinationals and local music industries since 1945. (Economic History Working Papers 170/12). Department of Economic History, London School of Economics and Political Science.
  • Bakker, Gerben (2010). The evolution of the British entertainment business: film, music and videogames. (BIS Economics Paper No. 6: Learning from Some of Britain’s Successful Sectors: An Historical Analysis of the Role of Government). Department for Business, Skills and Innovation.
  • Bakker, Gerben (2009). Time and productivity growth in services: how motion pictures industrialized entertainment. (Economic History Working Papers 119/09). Department of Economic History, London School of Economics and Political Science.
  • Bakker, Gerben, Iliopoulou, Stavroula (2007). Studying the past to plan for the future: a case study analysis of the unintended and indirect effects of regulation on productivity. (AIM Research Working Paper Series 062-December-2007). Advanced Institute of Management Research.
  • Bakker, Gerben (2007). Structural change and the growth contribution of services: how motion pictures industrialized US spectator entertainment. (Economic History Working Papers 104/07). Department of Economic History, London School of Economics and Political Science.
  • Bakker, Gerben (2007). Trading facts: Arrow's fundamental paradox and the emergence of global news networks, 1750-1900. (Working papers on the nature of evidence: how well do 'facts' travel? 17/07). Department of Economic History, London School of Economics and Political Science.
  • Bakker, Gerben (2007). The evolution of entertainment consumption and the emergence of cinema, 1890-1940. (Economic History Working Papers 102/07). Department of Economic History, London School of Economics and Political Science.
  • Bakker, Gerben (2004). At the origins of increased productivity growth in services. Productivity, social savings and the consumer surplus of the film industry, 1900-1938. (Economic History Working Papers 81/04). Department of Economic History, London School of Economics and Political Science.
  • Bakker, Gerben (2003). The decline and fall of the European film industry: sunk costs, market size and market structure, 1890-1927. (Economic History Working Papers 70/03). Department of Economic History, London School of Economics and Political Science.
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