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Shari Eli
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Joshua K. Hausman
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Paul W. Rhode
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YOU?
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· 2025
· Open Access
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· DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/s0022050725000014
· OA: W4406685997
YOU?
·
· 2025
· Open Access
·
· DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/s0022050725000014
· OA: W4406685997
We ask (1) why the United States adopted the car more quickly than other countries before 1929, and (2) why in the United States the car changed from a luxury to a mass-market good between 1909 and 1919. The answer is in part the success of the Model T in the United States. Mass production of the Model T began in 1913; by 1917, more than 40 percent of U.S. cars were Model Ts. Tariffs and difficulties producing outside Detroit made the U.S. success of the Model T difficult to replicate abroad.
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