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A Theory of Moral Persistence: Crypto-Morality and Political Legitimacy 0 0 0 94 0 2 18 398
A Transactions-Cost Theory of Agglomeration Economies 0 0 0 709 0 0 5 2,416
Contract Enforcement and Institutions among the Maghribi Traders: Refuting Edwards and Ogilvie 0 0 0 23 1 2 9 163
Contract Enforcement and Institutions among the Maghribi Traders: Refuting Edwards and Ogilvie 0 0 0 84 2 2 22 465
Contract enforcement and institutions among the Maghribi Traders: Refuting Edwards and Ogilvie 0 0 1 176 1 1 14 562
Cultural and Institutional Bifurcation: China and Europe Compared 0 0 1 92 2 3 17 396
Cultural and Institutional Bifurcation: China and Europe Compared 0 1 9 348 0 4 44 958
Culture and Social Organizations in the Great Reversal: Europe and China, 1000-2000 4 5 169 169 7 15 140 140
Culture and Social Organizations in the Great Reversal: Europe and China, 1000-2000 41 41 41 41 19 20 20 20
Economic History and Game Theory: a Survey 0 0 1 950 0 1 10 2,999
Endogenous Political Legitimacy: The Tudor Roots of England’s Constitutional Governance 0 0 1 36 0 0 10 40
Institutions and Development 0 0 1 5 0 2 18 62
Micro Theory and Recent Developments in the Study of Economic Institutions Through Economic History 0 0 0 851 1 2 11 2,235
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 0 0 13 2,052
Organizing Violence 0 0 0 10 0 0 11 61
Outside Options, Coercion, and Wages: Removing the Sugar Coating 0 0 0 97 0 1 13 191
Political Legitimacy in Historical Political Economy 0 0 1 82 1 1 15 61
Risk, Institutions and Growth: Why England and Not China? 0 0 0 219 0 1 8 531
Self-enforcing Political System and Economic Growth: Late Medieval Genoa 0 0 3 465 0 1 10 2,431
Social Organizations, Violence & Modern Growth 1 1 1 103 1 1 20 196
Spatial Competition, Innovation and Institutions: The Industrial Revolution and the Great Divergence 0 0 0 205 1 3 18 190
Spatial Competition, Innovation and Institutions: The Industrial Revolution and the Great Divergence 0 0 1 139 0 2 25 167
The Clan and the City: Sustaining Cooperation in China and Europe 0 0 2 281 0 8 31 808
The Clan and the City: Sustaining Cooperation in China and Europe 0 0 1 131 0 4 24 285
The Clan and the Corporation: Sustaining Cooperation in China and Europe 1 1 2 137 3 10 30 466
What Did the Old Poor Law Really Accomplish? A Redux 0 0 2 261 1 1 14 386
Total Working Papers 47 49 238 6,206 40 87 570 18,679


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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 1 1 6 42
A Theory of Endogenous Institutional Change 0 0 5 47 1 9 41 249
A theory of moral persistence: Crypto-morality and political legitimacy 0 0 1 44 0 1 12 260
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 1 2 8 49
Cliometrics after Forty Years 0 0 0 257 1 1 8 685
Cognitive rules, institutions, and economic growth: Douglass North and beyond 0 1 8 63 1 3 34 162
Contract Enforceability and Economic Institutions in Early Trade: the Maghribi Traders' Coalition 2 4 22 1,803 7 23 135 5,633
Coordination, Commitment, and Enforcement: The Case of the Merchant Guild 1 2 11 857 4 12 49 2,641
Cultural Beliefs and the Organization of Society: A Historical and Theoretical Reflection on Collectivist and Individualist Societies 0 6 34 2,711 3 26 125 11,937
Cultural and Institutional Bifurcation: China and Europe Compared 0 0 2 149 2 3 23 519
Do institutions evolve? 0 0 0 84 0 0 8 157
Endogenous Political Legitimacy: The Tudor Roots of England’s Constitutional Governance 0 0 1 3 0 1 8 13
Family Structure, Institutions, and Growth: The Origins and Implications of Western Corporations 0 0 1 131 2 4 24 713
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 0 27 0 0 2 107
Historical and Comparative Institutional Analysis 0 1 1 630 1 3 15 1,482
History Lessons: The Birth of Impersonal Exchange: The Community Responsibility System and Impartial Justice 0 0 1 61 0 3 23 1,037
Institutions and Impersonal Exchange: From Communal to Individual Responsibility 0 0 1 19 2 4 15 605
Institutions and International Trade: Lessons from the Commercial Revolution 0 0 2 462 0 1 13 1,775
Institutions and economic history: a critique of professor McCloskey 0 0 3 58 0 1 17 135
Introduction to the JCE Symposium on "The Dynamics of Institutions" 0 0 0 27 0 1 6 103
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 1 2 4 84
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 1 1 4 62
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 0 13 0 0 5 58
On the Political Foundations of the Late Medieval Commercial Revolution: Genoa During the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries 1 2 3 91 1 2 18 244
Organizing Violence 0 0 2 17 0 0 19 99
Outside Options, Coercion, and Wages: Removing the Sugar Coating 0 0 1 7 0 0 14 56
Reputation and Coalitions in Medieval Trade: Evidence on the Maghribi Traders 1 2 4 288 2 5 33 933
Social Organizations, Violence, and Modern Growth 0 0 0 42 0 0 11 210
Spatial competition, innovation and institutions: the Industrial Revolution and the Great Divergence 0 0 2 60 0 0 20 271
The Administrative Foundations of Self-Enforcing Constitutions 0 0 0 94 0 1 17 254
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 3 4 13 42
The Maghribi traders: a reappraisal? 0 0 0 58 1 1 10 153
The Organization of Long-Distance Trade: Reputation and Coalitions in the Geniza Documents and Genoa During the Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries 0 1 1 49 0 1 3 233
The Sovereign State and Its Competitors: An Analysis of Systems Change. By Hendrik Spruyt. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1994. Pp. 288 0 0 1 44 1 2 15 143
The Study of Organizations and Evolving Organizational Forms through History: Reflections from the Late Medieval Family Firm 0 0 0 1 1 2 18 460
The clan and the corporation: Sustaining cooperation in China and Europe 0 2 12 158 3 20 70 644
The curious commentary on the citation practices of Avner Greif 0 0 1 131 1 1 10 312
The fundamental problem of exchange: A research agenda in Historical Institutional Analysis 0 0 0 257 0 1 19 771
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 0 1 27 0 0 4 57
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 8 47
Total Journal Articles 5 21 121 8,828 42 144 887 33,437


Book File Downloads Abstract Views
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Analytic Narratives 0 0 0 0 0 2 21 151
Institutions and the Path to the Modern Economy 0 0 0 0 0 5 35 56
Institutions and the Path to the Modern Economy 0 0 0 0 0 10 35 88
Institutions, Innovation, and Industrialization: Essays in Economic History and Development 0 0 0 0 0 2 11 294
Total Books 0 0 0 0 0 19 102 589


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 0 1 18 33
Commitment, Coercion, and Markets: The Nature and Dynamics of Institutions Supporting Exchange 0 0 0 0 0 0 43 45
Commitment, Coercion, and Markets: The Nature and Dynamics of Institutions Supporting Exchange 0 0 0 0 0 2 25 43
Economic history and game theory 0 0 2 459 0 0 30 1,402
Introduction 0 0 0 46 0 1 7 178
Social Organizations, Risk-sharing Institutions, and Economic Development 0 0 0 1 0 1 12 30
Total Chapters 0 0 2 506 0 5 135 1,731


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