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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 0 1 3 2,412
Contract Enforcement and Institutions among the Maghribi Traders: Refuting Edwards and Ogilvie 0 0 0 84 2 5 7 448
Contract Enforcement and Institutions among the Maghribi Traders: Refuting Edwards and Ogilvie 0 0 0 23 0 1 2 155
Contract enforcement and institutions among the Maghribi Traders: Refuting Edwards and Ogilvie 0 0 0 175 1 2 5 550
Cultural and Institutional Bifurcation: China and Europe Compared 0 0 1 91 3 3 6 382
Cultural and Institutional Bifurcation: China and Europe Compared 0 2 9 341 4 11 35 927
Culture and Social Organizations in the Great Reversal: Europe and China, 1000-2000 5 53 149 149 11 46 89 89
Economic History and Game Theory: a Survey 0 0 1 950 0 0 1 2,990
Endogenous Political Legitimacy: The Tudor Roots of England’s Constitutional Governance 0 1 1 36 0 1 1 31
Institutions and Development 1 1 1 5 2 4 4 48
Micro Theory and Recent Developments in the Study of Economic Institutions Through Economic History 0 0 0 851 0 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 0 1 498 1 2 3 2,042
Organizing Violence 0 0 0 10 0 0 2 50
Outside Options, Coercion, and Wages: Removing the Sugar Coating 0 0 0 97 1 1 3 179
Political Legitimacy in Historical Political Economy 1 1 3 82 2 3 5 49
Risk, Institutions and Growth: Why England and Not China? 0 0 0 219 1 3 3 526
Self-enforcing Political System and Economic Growth: Late Medieval Genoa 1 1 3 464 1 2 6 2,424
Social Organizations, Violence & Modern Growth 0 0 0 102 4 5 6 181
Spatial Competition, Innovation and Institutions: The Industrial Revolution and the Great Divergence 0 0 0 205 3 3 5 175
Spatial Competition, Innovation and Institutions: The Industrial Revolution and the Great Divergence 1 1 2 139 1 2 7 144
The Clan and the City: Sustaining Cooperation in China and Europe 0 1 3 131 1 3 9 265
The Clan and the City: Sustaining Cooperation in China and Europe 0 1 5 280 4 7 17 784
The Clan and the Corporation: Sustaining Cooperation in China and Europe 0 1 3 136 0 5 13 441
What Did the Old Poor Law Really Accomplish? A Redux 1 1 1 260 1 3 7 376
Total Working Papers 10 64 185 6,131 43 115 248 18,274


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 1 37
A Theory of Endogenous Institutional Change 0 1 6 44 4 6 21 216
A theory of moral persistence: Crypto-morality and political legitimacy 0 0 1 43 5 6 11 254
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 1 2 2 679
Cognitive rules, institutions, and economic growth: Douglass North and beyond 1 4 4 59 3 8 10 136
Contract Enforceability and Economic Institutions in Early Trade: the Maghribi Traders' Coalition 2 6 29 1,789 8 24 87 5,528
Coordination, Commitment, and Enforcement: The Case of the Merchant Guild 1 6 16 852 4 11 35 2,604
Cultural Beliefs and the Organization of Society: A Historical and Theoretical Reflection on Collectivist and Individualist Societies 4 12 49 2,689 14 36 123 11,850
Cultural and Institutional Bifurcation: China and Europe Compared 0 0 5 148 6 10 19 507
Do institutions evolve? 0 0 1 84 1 2 8 151
Endogenous Political Legitimacy: The Tudor Roots of England’s Constitutional Governance 0 0 0 2 0 2 4 7
Family Structure, Institutions, and Growth: The Origins and Implications of Western Corporations 0 0 1 130 0 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 1 105
Historical and Comparative Institutional Analysis 0 0 0 629 2 4 15 1,473
History Lessons: The Birth of Impersonal Exchange: The Community Responsibility System and Impartial Justice 0 0 1 60 0 2 8 1,016
Institutions and Impersonal Exchange: From Communal to Individual Responsibility 0 0 1 18 0 0 6 591
Institutions and International Trade: Lessons from the Commercial Revolution 1 2 3 462 3 4 7 1,766
Institutions and economic history: a critique of professor McCloskey 1 2 4 57 3 7 13 126
Introduction to the JCE Symposium on "The Dynamics of Institutions" 0 0 0 27 0 0 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 0 1 89 1 3 15 230
Organizing Violence 1 1 1 16 4 8 10 88
Outside Options, Coercion, and Wages: Removing the Sugar Coating 0 0 1 6 1 1 8 45
Reputation and Coalitions in Medieval Trade: Evidence on the Maghribi Traders 0 0 3 284 2 3 15 904
Social Organizations, Violence, and Modern Growth 0 0 2 42 3 3 7 202
Spatial competition, innovation and institutions: the Industrial Revolution and the Great Divergence 1 2 5 60 5 8 28 259
The Administrative Foundations of Self-Enforcing Constitutions 0 0 0 94 2 2 7 239
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 0 29
The Maghribi traders: a reappraisal? 0 0 0 58 1 2 4 146
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 0 230
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 1 4 4 132
The Study of Organizations and Evolving Organizational Forms through History: Reflections from the Late Medieval Family Firm 0 0 0 1 0 3 4 445
The clan and the corporation: Sustaining cooperation in China and Europe 0 5 14 151 4 22 62 598
The curious commentary on the citation practices of Avner Greif 0 0 1 130 0 0 4 302
The fundamental problem of exchange: A research agenda in Historical Institutional Analysis 0 0 2 257 2 4 10 757
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 1 1 27 0 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 0 1 2 40
Total Journal Articles 12 42 155 8,754 80 195 579 32,770


Book File Downloads Abstract Views
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Analytic Narratives 0 0 0 0 4 7 8 137
Institutions and the Path to the Modern Economy 0 0 0 0 2 4 15 57
Institutions and the Path to the Modern Economy 0 0 0 0 4 4 7 25
Institutions, Innovation, and Industrialization: Essays in Economic History and Development 0 0 0 0 0 1 4 284
Total Books 0 0 0 0 10 16 34 503


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 8 13 24
Commitment, Coercion, and Markets: The Nature and Dynamics of Institutions Supporting Exchange 0 0 0 0 1 5 11 24
Commitment, Coercion, and Markets: The Nature and Dynamics of Institutions Supporting Exchange 0 0 0 0 3 5 7 7
Economic history and game theory 0 1 5 458 2 6 13 1,380
Introduction 0 0 1 46 0 0 7 173
Social Organizations, Risk-sharing Institutions, and Economic Development 0 0 0 1 2 2 4 20
Total Chapters 0 1 6 505 9 26 55 1,628


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