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A Theory of Moral Persistence: Crypto-Morality and Political Legitimacy 0 0 0 94 2 2 5 382
A Transactions-Cost Theory of Agglomeration Economies 0 0 1 709 1 2 3 2,413
Contract Enforcement and Institutions among the Maghribi Traders: Refuting Edwards and Ogilvie 0 0 0 84 2 6 8 450
Contract Enforcement and Institutions among the Maghribi Traders: Refuting Edwards and Ogilvie 0 0 0 23 2 3 3 157
Contract enforcement and institutions among the Maghribi Traders: Refuting Edwards and Ogilvie 0 0 0 175 4 6 9 554
Cultural and Institutional Bifurcation: China and Europe Compared 1 3 8 342 8 17 38 935
Cultural and Institutional Bifurcation: China and Europe Compared 1 1 1 92 4 7 9 386
Culture and Social Organizations in the Great Reversal: Europe and China, 1000-2000 4 21 153 153 8 41 97 97
Economic History and Game Theory: a Survey 0 0 1 950 2 2 3 2,992
Endogenous Political Legitimacy: The Tudor Roots of England’s Constitutional Governance 0 1 1 36 2 3 3 33
Institutions and Development 0 1 1 5 2 5 6 50
Micro Theory and Recent Developments in the Study of Economic Institutions Through Economic History 0 0 0 851 3 4 8 2,229
On the Social Foundations and Historical Development of Institutions that Facilitate Impersonal Exchange: From the Community Responsibility System to Individual Legal Responsibility in Pre-modern Europe 0 0 1 498 1 2 4 2,043
Organizing Violence 0 0 0 10 4 4 5 54
Outside Options, Coercion, and Wages: Removing the Sugar Coating 0 0 0 97 0 1 3 179
Political Legitimacy in Historical Political Economy 0 1 3 82 1 3 6 50
Risk, Institutions and Growth: Why England and Not China? 0 0 0 219 2 5 5 528
Self-enforcing Political System and Economic Growth: Late Medieval Genoa 0 1 3 464 1 3 6 2,425
Social Organizations, Violence & Modern Growth 0 0 0 102 1 5 7 182
Spatial Competition, Innovation and Institutions: The Industrial Revolution and the Great Divergence 0 0 0 205 1 4 6 176
Spatial Competition, Innovation and Institutions: The Industrial Revolution and the Great Divergence 0 1 2 139 4 5 11 148
The Clan and the City: Sustaining Cooperation in China and Europe 0 1 5 280 1 6 18 785
The Clan and the City: Sustaining Cooperation in China and Europe 0 1 3 131 1 4 10 266
The Clan and the Corporation: Sustaining Cooperation in China and Europe 0 0 3 136 3 6 15 444
What Did the Old Poor Law Really Accomplish? A Redux 0 1 1 260 3 6 10 379
Total Working Papers 6 33 187 6,137 63 152 298 18,337


Journal Article File Downloads Abstract Views
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A Mediterranean Emporium: The Catalan Kingdom of Majorca. By David Abulafia. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994. Pp. 292. $59.95 0 0 0 7 0 1 1 37
A Theory of Endogenous Institutional Change 0 1 5 44 3 9 21 219
A theory of moral persistence: Crypto-morality and political legitimacy 0 0 0 43 0 6 10 254
Ancient And Medieval - Trade, Trust, and Networks: Commercial Culture in Late Medieval Italy. By Gunnar Dahl.Lund: Nordic Academic Press, 1998. Pp. 355 0 0 0 9 0 0 1 41
Cliometrics after Forty Years 0 0 0 257 1 2 3 680
Cognitive rules, institutions, and economic growth: Douglass North and beyond 0 4 4 59 3 11 13 139
Contract Enforceability and Economic Institutions in Early Trade: the Maghribi Traders' Coalition 3 8 29 1,792 17 35 98 5,545
Coordination, Commitment, and Enforcement: The Case of the Merchant Guild 1 3 17 853 9 16 42 2,613
Cultural Beliefs and the Organization of Society: A Historical and Theoretical Reflection on Collectivist and Individualist Societies 5 14 49 2,694 15 42 126 11,865
Cultural and Institutional Bifurcation: China and Europe Compared 1 1 6 149 5 13 24 512
Do institutions evolve? 0 0 1 84 3 5 11 154
Endogenous Political Legitimacy: The Tudor Roots of England’s Constitutional Governance 0 0 0 2 0 2 3 7
Family Structure, Institutions, and Growth: The Origins and Implications of Western Corporations 1 1 2 131 4 8 20 698
Genoa and the Genoese, 958–1528. By Steven A. Epstein. 1996. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press. Pp. 396. $45.00, cloth 0 0 1 27 0 0 1 105
Historical and Comparative Institutional Analysis 0 0 0 629 1 5 15 1,474
History Lessons: The Birth of Impersonal Exchange: The Community Responsibility System and Impartial Justice 0 0 1 60 5 6 13 1,021
Institutions and Impersonal Exchange: From Communal to Individual Responsibility 0 0 1 18 2 2 6 593
Institutions and International Trade: Lessons from the Commercial Revolution 0 2 2 462 1 5 5 1,767
Institutions and economic history: a critique of professor McCloskey 0 1 3 57 2 8 14 128
Introduction to the JCE Symposium on "The Dynamics of Institutions" 0 0 0 27 0 0 2 98
Medieval and Early Modern - Before European Hegemony: The World System A.D. 1250–1350. By Janet L. Lughod. New York: Oxford University Press, 1989. Pp. xvi, 443. $35.00 0 0 0 18 0 0 1 80
Medieval and Early Modern - Trade and Traders in Muslim Spain: The Commercial Realignment of the Iberian Peninsula, 900–1500. By Olivia Remie Constable. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994. Pp. 320 0 0 0 16 0 0 1 58
Medieval and Early Modern - Wage Labor & Guilds in Medieval Europe. By Steven A. Epstein. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 1991. Pp. vii, 307. $39.95 0 0 1 13 0 0 3 53
On the Political Foundations of the Late Medieval Commercial Revolution: Genoa During the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries 0 0 1 89 3 4 18 233
Organizing Violence 1 2 2 17 1 7 10 89
Outside Options, Coercion, and Wages: Removing the Sugar Coating 0 0 1 6 1 2 9 46
Reputation and Coalitions in Medieval Trade: Evidence on the Maghribi Traders 0 0 3 284 8 10 23 912
Social Organizations, Violence, and Modern Growth 0 0 2 42 0 3 7 202
Spatial competition, innovation and institutions: the Industrial Revolution and the Great Divergence 0 1 4 60 5 11 31 264
The Administrative Foundations of Self-Enforcing Constitutions 0 0 0 94 0 2 4 239
The Analytic Narrative Project - Analytic Narratives. By Robert H. Bates, Avner Greif, Margaret Levi, Jean-Laurent Rosenthal, and Barry Weingast. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1998. 296p. $65.00 cloth, $22.95 paper 0 0 0 5 0 0 0 29
The Maghribi traders: a reappraisal? 0 0 0 58 3 4 7 149
The Organization of Long-Distance Trade: Reputation and Coalitions in the Geniza Documents and Genoa During the Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries 0 0 0 48 0 0 0 230
The Sovereign State and Its Competitors: An Analysis of Systems Change. By Hendrik Spruyt. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1994. Pp. 288 1 1 1 44 1 4 5 133
The Study of Organizations and Evolving Organizational Forms through History: Reflections from the Late Medieval Family Firm 0 0 0 1 2 5 5 447
The clan and the corporation: Sustaining cooperation in China and Europe 1 3 14 152 4 16 59 602
The curious commentary on the citation practices of Avner Greif 0 0 1 130 0 0 4 302
The fundamental problem of exchange: A research agenda in Historical Institutional Analysis 0 0 0 257 1 5 9 758
Trade and Institutions in the Medieval Mediterranean: The Geniza Merchants and Their Business World. By Jessica L. Goldberg. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 2012. Pp. xxi, 426. $114.00, hardcover 0 1 1 27 0 1 2 54
United States and Canada - Divergent Paths: How Culture and Institutions Have Shaped North American Growth. By Marc Egnal. New York: Oxford University Press, 1996. Pp. xvi, 300. $45.00, cloth; $17.95, paper 0 0 0 3 1 2 3 41
Total Journal Articles 14 43 152 8,768 101 252 630 32,871


Book File Downloads Abstract Views
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Analytic Narratives 0 0 0 0 4 9 12 141
Institutions and the Path to the Modern Economy 0 0 0 0 3 7 10 28
Institutions and the Path to the Modern Economy 0 0 0 0 7 11 20 64
Institutions, Innovation, and Industrialization: Essays in Economic History and Development 0 0 0 0 2 2 3 286
Total Books 0 0 0 0 16 29 45 519


Chapter File Downloads Abstract Views
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Commitment, Coercion and Markets: The Nature and Dynamics of Institutions Supporting Exchange 0 0 0 0 4 11 16 28
Commitment, Coercion, and Markets: The Nature and Dynamics of Institutions Supporting Exchange 0 0 0 0 4 9 11 11
Commitment, Coercion, and Markets: The Nature and Dynamics of Institutions Supporting Exchange 0 0 0 0 6 10 16 30
Economic history and game theory 0 1 5 458 2 7 15 1,382
Introduction 0 0 1 46 1 1 8 174
Social Organizations, Risk-sharing Institutions, and Economic Development 0 0 0 1 1 3 4 21
Total Chapters 0 1 6 505 18 41 70 1,646


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