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A Theory of Moral Persistence: Crypto-Morality and Political Legitimacy 0 0 0 94 0 0 4 380
A Transactions-Cost Theory of Agglomeration Economies 0 0 2 709 1 1 3 2,412
Contract Enforcement and Institutions among the Maghribi Traders: Refuting Edwards and Ogilvie 0 0 0 23 1 1 2 155
Contract Enforcement and Institutions among the Maghribi Traders: Refuting Edwards and Ogilvie 0 0 0 84 2 3 5 446
Contract enforcement and institutions among the Maghribi Traders: Refuting Edwards and Ogilvie 0 0 0 175 1 1 4 549
Cultural and Institutional Bifurcation: China and Europe Compared 2 2 10 341 5 9 37 923
Cultural and Institutional Bifurcation: China and Europe Compared 0 0 2 91 0 0 5 379
Culture and Social Organizations in the Great Reversal: Europe and China, 1000-2000 12 144 144 144 22 78 78 78
Economic History and Game Theory: a Survey 0 1 1 950 0 1 1 2,990
Endogenous Political Legitimacy: The Tudor Roots of England’s Constitutional Governance 1 1 2 36 1 1 3 31
Institutions and Development 0 0 0 4 1 2 2 46
Micro Theory and Recent Developments in the Study of Economic Institutions Through Economic History 0 0 0 851 1 2 5 2,226
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 1 1 498 0 2 2 2,041
Organizing Violence 0 0 0 10 0 0 3 50
Outside Options, Coercion, and Wages: Removing the Sugar Coating 0 0 0 97 0 0 2 178
Political Legitimacy in Historical Political Economy 0 0 2 81 0 1 3 47
Risk, Institutions and Growth: Why England and Not China? 0 0 0 219 2 2 2 525
Self-enforcing Political System and Economic Growth: Late Medieval Genoa 0 1 3 463 1 2 6 2,423
Social Organizations, Violence & Modern Growth 0 0 0 102 0 1 3 177
Spatial Competition, Innovation and Institutions: The Industrial Revolution and the Great Divergence 0 0 1 138 0 1 6 143
Spatial Competition, Innovation and Institutions: The Industrial Revolution and the Great Divergence 0 0 0 205 0 0 2 172
The Clan and the City: Sustaining Cooperation in China and Europe 1 1 3 131 2 3 8 264
The Clan and the City: Sustaining Cooperation in China and Europe 1 1 5 280 1 3 13 780
The Clan and the Corporation: Sustaining Cooperation in China and Europe 0 1 4 136 3 5 14 441
What Did the Old Poor Law Really Accomplish? A Redux 0 0 1 259 2 3 7 375
Total Working Papers 17 153 181 6,121 46 122 220 18,231


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 1 1 1 37
A Theory of Endogenous Institutional Change 1 2 6 44 2 4 18 212
A theory of moral persistence: Crypto-morality and political legitimacy 0 0 1 43 1 1 6 249
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 0 1 1 678
Cognitive rules, institutions, and economic growth: Douglass North and beyond 3 3 3 58 5 5 7 133
Contract Enforceability and Economic Institutions in Early Trade: the Maghribi Traders' Coalition 3 6 29 1,787 10 22 83 5,520
Coordination, Commitment, and Enforcement: The Case of the Merchant Guild 1 5 17 851 3 8 37 2,600
Cultural Beliefs and the Organization of Society: A Historical and Theoretical Reflection on Collectivist and Individualist Societies 5 8 46 2,685 13 24 111 11,836
Cultural and Institutional Bifurcation: China and Europe Compared 0 1 5 148 2 5 15 501
Do institutions evolve? 0 0 1 84 1 1 8 150
Endogenous Political Legitimacy: The Tudor Roots of England’s Constitutional Governance 0 0 2 2 2 2 7 7
Family Structure, Institutions, and Growth: The Origins and Implications of Western Corporations 0 0 1 130 4 5 17 694
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 2 105
Historical and Comparative Institutional Analysis 0 0 0 629 2 4 14 1,471
History Lessons: The Birth of Impersonal Exchange: The Community Responsibility System and Impartial Justice 0 0 1 60 1 2 8 1,016
Institutions and Impersonal Exchange: From Communal to Individual Responsibility 0 0 1 18 0 1 6 591
Institutions and International Trade: Lessons from the Commercial Revolution 1 1 3 461 1 1 6 1,763
Institutions and economic history: a critique of professor McCloskey 0 1 3 56 3 5 10 123
Introduction to the JCE Symposium on "The Dynamics of Institutions" 0 0 0 27 0 1 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 2 13 0 0 4 53
On the Political Foundations of the Late Medieval Commercial Revolution: Genoa During the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries 0 1 1 89 0 3 14 229
Organizing Violence 0 0 1 15 2 4 7 84
Outside Options, Coercion, and Wages: Removing the Sugar Coating 0 0 1 6 0 2 7 44
Reputation and Coalitions in Medieval Trade: Evidence on the Maghribi Traders 0 0 3 284 0 2 15 902
Social Organizations, Violence, and Modern Growth 0 0 2 42 0 0 5 199
Spatial competition, innovation and institutions: the Industrial Revolution and the Great Divergence 0 1 4 59 1 3 24 254
The Administrative Foundations of Self-Enforcing Constitutions 0 0 0 94 0 0 5 237
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 1 29
The Maghribi traders: a reappraisal? 0 0 0 58 0 2 3 145
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 1 230
The Sovereign State and Its Competitors: An Analysis of Systems Change. By Hendrik Spruyt. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1994. Pp. 288 0 0 0 43 2 3 3 131
The Study of Organizations and Evolving Organizational Forms through History: Reflections from the Late Medieval Family Firm 0 0 0 1 3 3 4 445
The clan and the corporation: Sustaining cooperation in China and Europe 2 5 14 151 8 20 62 594
The curious commentary on the citation practices of Avner Greif 0 0 2 130 0 0 5 302
The fundamental problem of exchange: A research agenda in Historical Institutional Analysis 0 0 2 257 2 3 8 755
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 1 1 1 27 1 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 1 2 40
Total Journal Articles 17 35 153 8,742 71 140 534 32,690


Book File Downloads Abstract Views
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Analytic Narratives 0 0 0 0 1 3 4 133
Institutions and the Path to the Modern Economy 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 21
Institutions and the Path to the Modern Economy 0 0 0 0 2 2 15 55
Institutions, Innovation, and Industrialization: Essays in Economic History and Development 0 0 0 0 0 1 4 284
Total Books 0 0 0 0 3 6 26 493


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 6 8 12 23
Commitment, Coercion, and Markets: The Nature and Dynamics of Institutions Supporting Exchange 0 0 0 0 3 5 10 23
Commitment, Coercion, and Markets: The Nature and Dynamics of Institutions Supporting Exchange 0 0 0 0 2 2 4 4
Economic history and game theory 1 1 5 458 3 6 11 1,378
Introduction 0 0 1 46 0 2 7 173
Social Organizations, Risk-sharing Institutions, and Economic Development 0 0 0 1 0 0 2 18
Total Chapters 1 1 6 505 14 23 46 1,619


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