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A Theory of Moral Persistence: Crypto-Morality and Political Legitimacy 0 0 0 94 4 6 8 386
A Transactions-Cost Theory of Agglomeration Economies 0 0 0 709 1 2 3 2,414
Contract Enforcement and Institutions among the Maghribi Traders: Refuting Edwards and Ogilvie 0 0 0 84 3 7 11 453
Contract Enforcement and Institutions among the Maghribi Traders: Refuting Edwards and Ogilvie 0 0 0 23 0 2 3 157
Contract enforcement and institutions among the Maghribi Traders: Refuting Edwards and Ogilvie 0 0 0 175 1 6 10 555
Cultural and Institutional Bifurcation: China and Europe Compared 1 2 9 343 5 17 41 940
Cultural and Institutional Bifurcation: China and Europe Compared 0 1 1 92 4 11 13 390
Culture and Social Organizations in the Great Reversal: Europe and China, 1000-2000 1 10 154 154 5 24 102 102
Economic History and Game Theory: a Survey 0 0 1 950 4 6 7 2,996
Endogenous Political Legitimacy: The Tudor Roots of England’s Constitutional Governance 0 0 1 36 2 4 5 35
Institutions and Development 0 1 1 5 4 8 10 54
Micro Theory and Recent Developments in the Study of Economic Institutions Through Economic History 0 0 0 851 1 4 8 2,230
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 3 5 7 2,046
Organizing Violence 0 0 0 10 4 8 9 58
Outside Options, Coercion, and Wages: Removing the Sugar Coating 0 0 0 97 7 8 10 186
Political Legitimacy in Historical Political Economy 0 1 3 82 4 7 10 54
Risk, Institutions and Growth: Why England and Not China? 0 0 0 219 1 4 6 529
Self-enforcing Political System and Economic Growth: Late Medieval Genoa 0 1 3 464 0 2 6 2,425
Social Organizations, Violence & Modern Growth 0 0 0 102 6 11 12 188
Spatial Competition, Innovation and Institutions: The Industrial Revolution and the Great Divergence 0 0 0 205 6 10 10 182
Spatial Competition, Innovation and Institutions: The Industrial Revolution and the Great Divergence 0 1 2 139 13 18 23 161
The Clan and the City: Sustaining Cooperation in China and Europe 0 0 3 280 6 11 22 791
The Clan and the City: Sustaining Cooperation in China and Europe 0 0 2 131 6 8 15 272
The Clan and the Corporation: Sustaining Cooperation in China and Europe 0 0 3 136 5 8 17 449
What Did the Old Poor Law Really Accomplish? A Redux 1 2 2 261 4 8 13 383
Total Working Papers 3 19 186 6,140 99 205 381 18,436


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 3 3 4 40
A Theory of Endogenous Institutional Change 2 2 7 46 8 15 26 227
A theory of moral persistence: Crypto-morality and political legitimacy 0 0 0 43 1 6 11 255
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 2 2 3 43
Cliometrics after Forty Years 0 0 0 257 2 4 5 682
Cognitive rules, institutions, and economic growth: Douglass North and beyond 1 2 5 60 10 16 22 149
Contract Enforceability and Economic Institutions in Early Trade: the Maghribi Traders' Coalition 2 7 29 1,794 21 46 110 5,566
Coordination, Commitment, and Enforcement: The Case of the Merchant Guild 1 3 16 854 8 21 44 2,621
Cultural Beliefs and the Organization of Society: A Historical and Theoretical Reflection on Collectivist and Individualist Societies 0 9 47 2,694 9 38 127 11,874
Cultural and Institutional Bifurcation: China and Europe Compared 0 1 6 149 1 12 25 513
Do institutions evolve? 0 0 0 84 1 5 10 155
Endogenous Political Legitimacy: The Tudor Roots of England’s Constitutional Governance 0 0 0 2 1 1 4 8
Family Structure, Institutions, and Growth: The Origins and Implications of Western Corporations 0 1 1 131 7 11 26 705
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 4 15 1,475
History Lessons: The Birth of Impersonal Exchange: The Community Responsibility System and Impartial Justice 0 0 1 60 6 11 19 1,027
Institutions and Impersonal Exchange: From Communal to Individual Responsibility 1 1 2 19 5 7 10 598
Institutions and International Trade: Lessons from the Commercial Revolution 0 1 2 462 6 10 11 1,773
Institutions and economic history: a critique of professor McCloskey 0 1 2 57 3 8 15 131
Introduction to the JCE Symposium on "The Dynamics of Institutions" 0 0 0 27 3 3 5 101
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 1 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 1 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 1 13 1 1 4 54
On the Political Foundations of the Late Medieval Commercial Revolution: Genoa During the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries 0 0 1 89 5 9 22 238
Organizing Violence 0 2 2 17 2 7 12 91
Outside Options, Coercion, and Wages: Removing the Sugar Coating 0 0 0 6 3 5 11 49
Reputation and Coalitions in Medieval Trade: Evidence on the Maghribi Traders 1 1 1 285 7 17 26 919
Social Organizations, Violence, and Modern Growth 0 0 2 42 2 5 9 204
Spatial competition, innovation and institutions: the Industrial Revolution and the Great Divergence 0 1 4 60 1 11 30 265
The Administrative Foundations of Self-Enforcing Constitutions 0 0 0 94 11 13 15 250
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 4 4 4 33
The Maghribi traders: a reappraisal? 0 0 0 58 2 6 9 151
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 1 1 231
The Sovereign State and Its Competitors: An Analysis of Systems Change. By Hendrik Spruyt. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1994. Pp. 288 0 1 1 44 4 6 9 137
The Study of Organizations and Evolving Organizational Forms through History: Reflections from the Late Medieval Family Firm 0 0 0 1 6 8 11 453
The clan and the corporation: Sustaining cooperation in China and Europe 1 2 14 153 7 15 60 609
The curious commentary on the citation practices of Avner Greif 1 1 1 131 5 5 7 307
The fundamental problem of exchange: A research agenda in Historical Institutional Analysis 0 0 0 257 4 7 13 762
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 1 1 3 55
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 3 41
Total Journal Articles 10 36 147 8,778 166 347 746 33,037


Book File Downloads Abstract Views
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Analytic Narratives 0 0 0 0 3 11 15 144
Institutions and the Path to the Modern Economy 0 0 0 0 14 21 23 42
Institutions and the Path to the Modern Economy 0 0 0 0 2 11 21 66
Institutions, Innovation, and Industrialization: Essays in Economic History and Development 0 0 0 0 3 5 6 289
Total Books 0 0 0 0 22 48 65 541


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 2 7 17 30
Commitment, Coercion, and Markets: The Nature and Dynamics of Institutions Supporting Exchange 0 0 0 0 7 14 21 37
Commitment, Coercion, and Markets: The Nature and Dynamics of Institutions Supporting Exchange 0 0 0 0 16 23 27 27
Economic history and game theory 0 0 5 458 6 10 20 1,388
Introduction 0 0 1 46 2 3 9 176
Social Organizations, Risk-sharing Institutions, and Economic Development 0 0 0 1 3 6 7 24
Total Chapters 0 0 6 505 36 63 101 1,682


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