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A Theory of Moral Persistence: Crypto-Morality and Political Legitimacy 0 0 0 94 0 0 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 84 1 4 23 467
Contract Enforcement and Institutions among the Maghribi Traders: Refuting Edwards and Ogilvie 0 0 0 23 0 1 9 163
Contract enforcement and institutions among the Maghribi Traders: Refuting Edwards and Ogilvie 0 0 1 176 1 2 15 563
Cultural and Institutional Bifurcation: China and Europe Compared 1 1 10 349 6 7 47 965
Cultural and Institutional Bifurcation: China and Europe Compared 0 0 1 92 2 5 20 399
Culture and Social Organizations in the Great Reversal: Europe and China, 1000-2000 0 53 53 53 1 26 27 27
Culture and Social Organizations in the Great Reversal: Europe and China, 1000-2000 0 4 37 169 2 11 88 144
Economic History and Game Theory: a Survey 0 0 0 950 0 0 9 2,999
Endogenous Political Legitimacy: The Tudor Roots of England’s Constitutional Governance 1 1 2 37 1 1 11 41
Institutions and Development 0 0 1 5 0 1 18 63
Micro Theory and Recent Developments in the Study of Economic Institutions Through Economic History 0 0 0 851 0 1 10 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 0 498 1 1 12 2,053
Organizing Violence 0 0 0 10 0 1 12 62
Outside Options, Coercion, and Wages: Removing the Sugar Coating 0 0 0 97 2 2 15 193
Political Legitimacy in Historical Political Economy 0 0 1 82 1 2 15 62
Risk, Institutions and Growth: Why England and Not China? 0 0 0 219 2 5 13 536
Self-enforcing Political System and Economic Growth: Late Medieval Genoa 0 0 2 465 0 1 10 2,432
Social Organizations, Violence & Modern Growth 0 2 2 104 1 5 23 200
Spatial Competition, Innovation and Institutions: The Industrial Revolution and the Great Divergence 0 0 1 139 0 1 25 168
Spatial Competition, Innovation and Institutions: The Industrial Revolution and the Great Divergence 0 0 0 205 0 2 19 191
The Clan and the City: Sustaining Cooperation in China and Europe 0 0 2 281 1 1 30 809
The Clan and the City: Sustaining Cooperation in China and Europe 0 0 1 131 1 2 25 287
The Clan and the Corporation: Sustaining Cooperation in China and Europe 0 1 1 137 0 4 29 467
What Did the Old Poor Law Really Accomplish? A Redux 0 0 2 261 1 4 16 389
Total Working Papers 2 62 117 6,221 24 90 544 18,729


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 6 42
A Theory of Endogenous Institutional Change 1 5 9 52 1 7 45 255
A theory of moral persistence: Crypto-morality and political legitimacy 0 0 1 44 0 0 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 0 1 8 49
Cliometrics after Forty Years 1 1 1 258 1 2 8 686
Cognitive rules, institutions, and economic growth: Douglass North and beyond 0 0 8 63 0 3 36 164
Contract Enforceability and Economic Institutions in Early Trade: the Maghribi Traders' Coalition 4 8 25 1,809 13 34 150 5,660
Coordination, Commitment, and Enforcement: The Case of the Merchant Guild 1 2 8 858 4 11 51 2,648
Cultural Beliefs and the Organization of Society: A Historical and Theoretical Reflection on Collectivist and Individualist Societies 0 1 32 2,712 6 12 123 11,946
Cultural and Institutional Bifurcation: China and Europe Compared 1 2 3 151 4 8 26 525
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 1 4 12 17
Family Structure, Institutions, and Growth: The Origins and Implications of Western Corporations 0 0 1 131 0 2 23 713
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 0 1 630 1 4 16 1,485
History Lessons: The Birth of Impersonal Exchange: The Community Responsibility System and Impartial Justice 0 0 1 61 0 1 23 1,038
Institutions and Impersonal Exchange: From Communal to Individual Responsibility 2 2 3 21 5 7 19 610
Institutions and International Trade: Lessons from the Commercial Revolution 0 0 2 462 1 1 14 1,776
Institutions and economic history: a critique of professor McCloskey 0 1 3 59 0 1 16 136
Introduction to the JCE Symposium on "The Dynamics of Institutions" 0 0 0 27 0 0 5 103
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 0 1 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 0 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 1 6 59
On the Political Foundations of the Late Medieval Commercial Revolution: Genoa During the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries 0 1 2 91 1 3 17 246
Organizing Violence 0 0 2 17 0 2 19 101
Outside Options, Coercion, and Wages: Removing the Sugar Coating 0 0 1 7 1 1 13 57
Reputation and Coalitions in Medieval Trade: Evidence on the Maghribi Traders 0 4 7 291 1 14 43 945
Social Organizations, Violence, and Modern Growth 0 0 0 42 0 1 12 211
Spatial competition, innovation and institutions: the Industrial Revolution and the Great Divergence 0 0 1 60 0 2 20 273
The Administrative Foundations of Self-Enforcing Constitutions 0 0 0 94 0 0 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 1 5 15 44
The Maghribi traders: a reappraisal? 0 0 0 58 1 2 9 154
The Organization of Long-Distance Trade: Reputation and Coalitions in the Geniza Documents and Genoa During the Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries 1 1 2 50 1 1 4 234
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 0 1 14 143
The Study of Organizations and Evolving Organizational Forms through History: Reflections from the Late Medieval Family Firm 0 0 0 1 2 3 20 462
The clan and the corporation: Sustaining cooperation in China and Europe 1 2 11 160 5 16 71 657
The curious commentary on the citation practices of Avner Greif 0 0 1 131 1 2 11 313
The fundamental problem of exchange: A research agenda in Historical Institutional Analysis 0 1 1 258 1 2 20 773
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 0 1 8 47
Total Journal Articles 12 31 129 8,854 52 158 934 33,553


Book File Downloads Abstract Views
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Analytic Narratives 0 0 0 0 0 0 19 151
Institutions and the Path to the Modern Economy 0 0 0 0 1 2 37 58
Institutions and the Path to the Modern Economy 0 0 0 0 1 3 38 91
Institutions, Innovation, and Industrialization: Essays in Economic History and Development 0 0 0 0 1 3 13 297
Total Books 0 0 0 0 3 8 107 597


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 0 16 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 1 2 25 45
Economic history and game theory 0 0 2 459 1 1 28 1,403
Introduction 0 0 0 46 0 0 5 178
Social Organizations, Risk-sharing Institutions, and Economic Development 0 0 0 1 1 2 14 32
Total Chapters 0 0 2 506 3 5 131 1,736


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