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A Theory of Moral Persistence: Crypto-Morality and Political Legitimacy 0 0 0 94 3 10 12 392
A Transactions-Cost Theory of Agglomeration Economies 0 0 0 709 0 1 3 2,414
Contract Enforcement and Institutions among the Maghribi Traders: Refuting Edwards and Ogilvie 0 0 0 84 1 8 15 458
Contract Enforcement and Institutions among the Maghribi Traders: Refuting Edwards and Ogilvie 0 0 0 23 0 1 4 158
Contract enforcement and institutions among the Maghribi Traders: Refuting Edwards and Ogilvie 1 1 1 176 2 3 10 557
Cultural and Institutional Bifurcation: China and Europe Compared 0 0 1 92 1 6 13 392
Cultural and Institutional Bifurcation: China and Europe Compared 2 4 10 346 5 15 45 950
Culture and Social Organizations in the Great Reversal: Europe and China, 1000-2000 4 9 162 162 11 22 119 119
Economic History and Game Theory: a Survey 0 0 1 950 0 5 8 2,997
Endogenous Political Legitimacy: The Tudor Roots of England’s Constitutional Governance 0 0 1 36 1 4 7 37
Institutions and Development 0 0 1 5 1 9 15 59
Micro Theory and Recent Developments in the Study of Economic Institutions Through Economic History 0 0 0 851 2 4 9 2,233
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 2 7 11 2,050
Organizing Violence 0 0 0 10 2 6 10 60
Outside Options, Coercion, and Wages: Removing the Sugar Coating 0 0 0 97 3 11 13 190
Political Legitimacy in Historical Political Economy 0 0 3 82 0 5 11 55
Risk, Institutions and Growth: Why England and Not China? 0 0 0 219 0 2 7 530
Self-enforcing Political System and Economic Growth: Late Medieval Genoa 1 1 4 465 1 1 7 2,426
Social Organizations, Violence & Modern Growth 0 0 0 102 1 10 16 192
Spatial Competition, Innovation and Institutions: The Industrial Revolution and the Great Divergence 0 0 0 205 1 7 11 183
Spatial Competition, Innovation and Institutions: The Industrial Revolution and the Great Divergence 0 0 2 139 1 17 26 165
The Clan and the City: Sustaining Cooperation in China and Europe 1 1 4 281 3 11 25 796
The Clan and the City: Sustaining Cooperation in China and Europe 0 0 1 131 3 14 21 280
The Clan and the Corporation: Sustaining Cooperation in China and Europe 0 0 2 136 1 7 17 451
What Did the Old Poor Law Really Accomplish? A Redux 0 1 2 261 0 5 13 384
Total Working Papers 9 17 196 6,154 45 191 448 18,528


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 3 4 40
A Theory of Endogenous Institutional Change 0 3 6 47 2 15 29 234
A theory of moral persistence: Crypto-morality and political legitimacy 0 1 1 44 0 2 11 256
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 2 3 43
Cliometrics after Forty Years 0 0 0 257 0 2 5 682
Cognitive rules, institutions, and economic growth: Douglass North and beyond 1 3 7 62 1 17 29 156
Contract Enforceability and Economic Institutions in Early Trade: the Maghribi Traders' Coalition 0 6 22 1,798 11 47 106 5,592
Coordination, Commitment, and Enforcement: The Case of the Merchant Guild 0 1 11 854 2 13 44 2,626
Cultural Beliefs and the Organization of Society: A Historical and Theoretical Reflection on Collectivist and Individualist Societies 3 8 44 2,702 7 25 118 11,890
Cultural and Institutional Bifurcation: China and Europe Compared 0 0 3 149 0 2 21 514
Do institutions evolve? 0 0 0 84 0 1 8 155
Endogenous Political Legitimacy: The Tudor Roots of England’s Constitutional Governance 0 1 1 3 1 3 5 10
Family Structure, Institutions, and Growth: The Origins and Implications of Western Corporations 0 0 1 131 0 8 26 706
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 1 1 1 106
Historical and Comparative Institutional Analysis 0 0 0 629 0 3 16 1,477
History Lessons: The Birth of Impersonal Exchange: The Community Responsibility System and Impartial Justice 0 1 2 61 2 12 21 1,033
Institutions and Impersonal Exchange: From Communal to Individual Responsibility 0 1 2 19 1 6 11 599
Institutions and International Trade: Lessons from the Commercial Revolution 0 0 2 462 1 7 12 1,774
Institutions and economic history: a critique of professor McCloskey 0 1 3 58 2 6 16 134
Introduction to the JCE Symposium on "The Dynamics of Institutions" 0 0 0 27 0 3 4 101
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 1 2 81
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 1 2 59
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 2 4 5 57
On the Political Foundations of the Late Medieval Commercial Revolution: Genoa During the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries 0 0 1 89 0 7 14 240
Organizing Violence 0 0 2 17 1 5 14 94
Outside Options, Coercion, and Wages: Removing the Sugar Coating 0 1 1 7 1 5 10 51
Reputation and Coalitions in Medieval Trade: Evidence on the Maghribi Traders 0 2 2 286 4 13 30 925
Social Organizations, Violence, and Modern Growth 0 0 0 42 1 5 9 207
Spatial competition, innovation and institutions: the Industrial Revolution and the Great Divergence 0 0 4 60 0 3 25 267
The Administrative Foundations of Self-Enforcing Constitutions 0 0 0 94 2 13 16 252
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 1 5 5 34
The Maghribi traders: a reappraisal? 0 0 0 58 0 3 10 152
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 1 2 2 232
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 2 6 11 139
The Study of Organizations and Evolving Organizational Forms through History: Reflections from the Late Medieval Family Firm 0 0 0 1 2 9 14 456
The clan and the corporation: Sustaining cooperation in China and Europe 1 4 13 156 3 15 54 617
The curious commentary on the citation practices of Avner Greif 0 1 1 131 0 6 8 308
The fundamental problem of exchange: A research agenda in Historical Institutional Analysis 0 0 0 257 1 11 18 769
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 3 5 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 2 2 5 43
Total Journal Articles 5 34 131 8,802 54 297 749 33,168


Book File Downloads Abstract Views
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Analytic Narratives 0 0 0 0 0 3 15 144
Institutions and the Path to the Modern Economy 0 0 0 0 4 9 25 73
Institutions and the Path to the Modern Economy 0 0 0 0 2 22 29 50
Institutions, Innovation, and Industrialization: Essays in Economic History and Development 0 0 0 0 1 5 8 291
Total Books 0 0 0 0 7 39 77 558


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 1 3 18 31
Commitment, Coercion, and Markets: The Nature and Dynamics of Institutions Supporting Exchange 0 0 0 0 1 8 22 38
Commitment, Coercion, and Markets: The Nature and Dynamics of Institutions Supporting Exchange 0 0 0 0 3 32 43 43
Economic history and game theory 1 1 4 459 4 13 25 1,395
Introduction 0 0 1 46 0 2 7 176
Social Organizations, Risk-sharing Institutions, and Economic Development 0 0 0 1 0 3 6 24
Total Chapters 1 1 5 506 9 61 121 1,707


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