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A Theory of Moral Persistence: Crypto-Morality and Political Legitimacy 0 0 0 94 2 9 18 398
A Transactions-Cost Theory of Agglomeration Economies 0 0 0 709 0 2 5 2,416
Contract Enforcement and Institutions among the Maghribi Traders: Refuting Edwards and Ogilvie 0 0 0 23 1 4 8 162
Contract Enforcement and Institutions among the Maghribi Traders: Refuting Edwards and Ogilvie 0 0 0 84 0 6 20 463
Contract enforcement and institutions among the Maghribi Traders: Refuting Edwards and Ogilvie 0 1 1 176 0 6 13 561
Cultural and Institutional Bifurcation: China and Europe Compared 0 0 1 92 0 2 14 393
Cultural and Institutional Bifurcation: China and Europe Compared 1 4 9 348 2 11 43 956
Culture and Social Organizations in the Great Reversal: Europe and China, 1000-2000 0 6 164 164 6 23 131 131
Economic History and Game Theory: a Survey 0 0 1 950 1 2 10 2,999
Endogenous Political Legitimacy: The Tudor Roots of England’s Constitutional Governance 0 0 1 36 0 4 10 40
Institutions and Development 0 0 1 5 1 3 17 61
Micro Theory and Recent Developments in the Study of Economic Institutions Through Economic History 0 0 0 851 0 2 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 0 4 13 2,052
Organizing Violence 0 0 0 10 0 3 11 61
Outside Options, Coercion, and Wages: Removing the Sugar Coating 0 0 0 97 1 4 14 191
Political Legitimacy in Historical Political Economy 0 0 1 82 0 5 14 60
Risk, Institutions and Growth: Why England and Not China? 0 0 0 219 0 0 7 530
Self-enforcing Political System and Economic Growth: Late Medieval Genoa 0 1 4 465 1 6 11 2,431
Social Organizations, Violence & Modern Growth 0 0 0 102 0 4 19 195
Spatial Competition, Innovation and Institutions: The Industrial Revolution and the Great Divergence 0 0 0 205 1 6 16 188
Spatial Competition, Innovation and Institutions: The Industrial Revolution and the Great Divergence 0 0 2 139 2 3 26 167
The Clan and the City: Sustaining Cooperation in China and Europe 0 1 2 281 5 12 31 805
The Clan and the City: Sustaining Cooperation in China and Europe 0 0 1 131 1 5 23 282
The Clan and the Corporation: Sustaining Cooperation in China and Europe 0 0 1 136 5 11 26 461
What Did the Old Poor Law Really Accomplish? A Redux 0 0 2 261 0 1 13 385
Total Working Papers 1 13 192 6,158 29 138 522 18,621


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 5 41
A Theory of Endogenous Institutional Change 0 0 6 47 4 12 37 244
A theory of moral persistence: Crypto-morality and political legitimacy 0 0 1 44 1 4 15 260
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 5 7 48
Cliometrics after Forty Years 0 0 0 257 0 2 7 684
Cognitive rules, institutions, and economic growth: Douglass North and beyond 0 1 7 62 1 5 32 160
Contract Enforceability and Economic Institutions in Early Trade: the Maghribi Traders' Coalition 2 3 24 1,801 10 39 130 5,620
Coordination, Commitment, and Enforcement: The Case of the Merchant Guild 0 1 9 855 1 6 43 2,630
Cultural Beliefs and the Organization of Society: A Historical and Theoretical Reflection on Collectivist and Individualist Societies 3 9 33 2,708 10 38 121 11,921
Cultural and Institutional Bifurcation: China and Europe Compared 0 0 2 149 1 3 21 517
Do institutions evolve? 0 0 0 84 0 2 10 157
Endogenous Political Legitimacy: The Tudor Roots of England’s Constitutional Governance 0 0 1 3 1 4 8 13
Family Structure, Institutions, and Growth: The Origins and Implications of Western Corporations 0 0 1 131 1 4 27 710
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 2 2 107
Historical and Comparative Institutional Analysis 0 0 0 629 1 3 14 1,480
History Lessons: The Birth of Impersonal Exchange: The Community Responsibility System and Impartial Justice 0 0 2 61 2 5 23 1,036
Institutions and Impersonal Exchange: From Communal to Individual Responsibility 0 0 2 19 2 5 15 603
Institutions and International Trade: Lessons from the Commercial Revolution 0 0 2 462 1 2 13 1,775
Institutions and economic history: a critique of professor McCloskey 0 0 3 58 0 2 16 134
Introduction to the JCE Symposium on "The Dynamics of Institutions" 0 0 0 27 0 1 5 102
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 83
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 2 4 61
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 3 6 58
On the Political Foundations of the Late Medieval Commercial Revolution: Genoa During the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries 1 1 2 90 1 3 17 243
Organizing Violence 0 0 2 17 0 6 19 99
Outside Options, Coercion, and Wages: Removing the Sugar Coating 0 0 1 7 0 6 14 56
Reputation and Coalitions in Medieval Trade: Evidence on the Maghribi Traders 0 0 2 286 2 9 33 930
Social Organizations, Violence, and Modern Growth 0 0 0 42 0 4 12 210
Spatial competition, innovation and institutions: the Industrial Revolution and the Great Divergence 0 0 2 60 0 4 23 271
The Administrative Foundations of Self-Enforcing Constitutions 0 0 0 94 1 4 18 254
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 6 10 39
The Maghribi traders: a reappraisal? 0 0 0 58 0 0 10 152
The Organization of Long-Distance Trade: Reputation and Coalitions in the Geniza Documents and Genoa During the Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries 1 1 1 49 1 2 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 5 14 142
The Study of Organizations and Evolving Organizational Forms through History: Reflections from the Late Medieval Family Firm 0 0 0 1 1 5 17 459
The clan and the corporation: Sustaining cooperation in China and Europe 2 3 13 158 15 25 71 639
The curious commentary on the citation practices of Avner Greif 0 0 1 131 0 3 11 311
The fundamental problem of exchange: A research agenda in Historical Institutional Analysis 0 0 0 257 1 3 20 771
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 5 7 46
Total Journal Articles 9 19 119 8,816 63 242 868 33,356


Book File Downloads Abstract Views
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Analytic Narratives 0 0 0 0 1 6 20 150
Institutions and the Path to the Modern Economy 0 0 0 0 0 3 30 51
Institutions and the Path to the Modern Economy 0 0 0 0 4 13 33 82
Institutions, Innovation, and Industrialization: Essays in Economic History and Development 0 0 0 0 1 3 10 293
Total Books 0 0 0 0 6 25 93 576


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 2 19 32
Commitment, Coercion, and Markets: The Nature and Dynamics of Institutions Supporting Exchange 0 0 0 0 1 5 26 42
Commitment, Coercion, and Markets: The Nature and Dynamics of Institutions Supporting Exchange 0 0 0 0 0 5 45 45
Economic history and game theory 0 1 2 459 0 11 30 1,402
Introduction 0 0 0 46 0 1 7 177
Social Organizations, Risk-sharing Institutions, and Economic Development 0 0 0 1 1 6 12 30
Total Chapters 0 1 2 506 2 30 139 1,728


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