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A Theory of Moral Persistence: Crypto-Morality and Political Legitimacy 0 0 0 94 3 9 9 389
A Transactions-Cost Theory of Agglomeration Economies 0 0 0 709 0 2 3 2,414
Contract Enforcement and Institutions among the Maghribi Traders: Refuting Edwards and Ogilvie 0 0 0 23 1 3 4 158
Contract Enforcement and Institutions among the Maghribi Traders: Refuting Edwards and Ogilvie 0 0 0 84 4 9 14 457
Contract enforcement and institutions among the Maghribi Traders: Refuting Edwards and Ogilvie 0 0 0 175 0 5 8 555
Cultural and Institutional Bifurcation: China and Europe Compared 1 3 8 344 5 18 40 945
Cultural and Institutional Bifurcation: China and Europe Compared 0 1 1 92 1 9 12 391
Culture and Social Organizations in the Great Reversal: Europe and China, 1000-2000 4 9 158 158 6 19 108 108
Economic History and Game Theory: a Survey 0 0 1 950 1 7 8 2,997
Endogenous Political Legitimacy: The Tudor Roots of England’s Constitutional Governance 0 0 1 36 1 5 6 36
Institutions and Development 0 0 1 5 4 10 14 58
Micro Theory and Recent Developments in the Study of Economic Institutions Through Economic History 0 0 0 851 1 5 8 2,231
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 2 6 9 2,048
Organizing Violence 0 0 0 10 0 8 8 58
Outside Options, Coercion, and Wages: Removing the Sugar Coating 0 0 0 97 1 8 10 187
Political Legitimacy in Historical Political Economy 0 0 3 82 1 6 11 55
Risk, Institutions and Growth: Why England and Not China? 0 0 0 219 1 4 7 530
Self-enforcing Political System and Economic Growth: Late Medieval Genoa 0 0 3 464 0 1 6 2,425
Social Organizations, Violence & Modern Growth 0 0 0 102 3 10 15 191
Spatial Competition, Innovation and Institutions: The Industrial Revolution and the Great Divergence 0 0 2 139 3 20 25 164
Spatial Competition, Innovation and Institutions: The Industrial Revolution and the Great Divergence 0 0 0 205 0 7 10 182
The Clan and the City: Sustaining Cooperation in China and Europe 0 0 1 131 5 12 19 277
The Clan and the City: Sustaining Cooperation in China and Europe 0 0 3 280 2 9 23 793
The Clan and the Corporation: Sustaining Cooperation in China and Europe 0 0 2 136 1 9 16 450
What Did the Old Poor Law Really Accomplish? A Redux 0 1 2 261 1 8 14 384
Total Working Papers 5 14 187 6,145 47 209 407 18,483


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 3 4 40
A Theory of Endogenous Institutional Change 1 3 6 47 5 16 27 232
A theory of moral persistence: Crypto-morality and political legitimacy 1 1 1 44 1 2 11 256
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 2 3 43
Cliometrics after Forty Years 0 0 0 257 0 3 5 682
Cognitive rules, institutions, and economic growth: Douglass North and beyond 1 2 6 61 6 19 28 155
Contract Enforceability and Economic Institutions in Early Trade: the Maghribi Traders' Coalition 4 9 25 1,798 15 53 104 5,581
Coordination, Commitment, and Enforcement: The Case of the Merchant Guild 0 2 12 854 3 20 43 2,624
Cultural Beliefs and the Organization of Society: A Historical and Theoretical Reflection on Collectivist and Individualist Societies 5 10 48 2,699 9 33 127 11,883
Cultural and Institutional Bifurcation: China and Europe Compared 0 1 3 149 1 7 21 514
Do institutions evolve? 0 0 0 84 0 4 9 155
Endogenous Political Legitimacy: The Tudor Roots of England’s Constitutional Governance 1 1 1 3 1 2 5 9
Family Structure, Institutions, and Growth: The Origins and Implications of Western Corporations 0 1 1 131 1 12 27 706
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 0 105
Historical and Comparative Institutional Analysis 0 0 0 629 2 4 16 1,477
History Lessons: The Birth of Impersonal Exchange: The Community Responsibility System and Impartial Justice 1 1 2 61 4 15 21 1,031
Institutions and Impersonal Exchange: From Communal to Individual Responsibility 0 1 2 19 0 7 10 598
Institutions and International Trade: Lessons from the Commercial Revolution 0 0 2 462 0 7 11 1,773
Institutions and economic history: a critique of professor McCloskey 1 1 3 58 1 6 14 132
Introduction to the JCE Symposium on "The Dynamics of Institutions" 0 0 0 27 0 3 4 101
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 0 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 0 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 0 13 1 2 3 55
On the Political Foundations of the Late Medieval Commercial Revolution: Genoa During the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries 0 0 1 89 2 10 14 240
Organizing Violence 0 1 2 17 2 5 13 93
Outside Options, Coercion, and Wages: Removing the Sugar Coating 1 1 1 7 1 5 10 50
Reputation and Coalitions in Medieval Trade: Evidence on the Maghribi Traders 1 2 2 286 2 17 27 921
Social Organizations, Violence, and Modern Growth 0 0 1 42 2 4 10 206
Spatial competition, innovation and institutions: the Industrial Revolution and the Great Divergence 0 0 4 60 2 8 27 267
The Administrative Foundations of Self-Enforcing Constitutions 0 0 0 94 0 11 14 250
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 0 4 4 33
The Maghribi traders: a reappraisal? 0 0 0 58 1 6 10 152
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 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 0 5 9 137
The Study of Organizations and Evolving Organizational Forms through History: Reflections from the Late Medieval Family Firm 0 0 0 1 1 9 12 454
The clan and the corporation: Sustaining cooperation in China and Europe 2 4 12 155 5 16 52 614
The curious commentary on the citation practices of Avner Greif 0 1 1 131 1 6 8 308
The fundamental problem of exchange: A research agenda in Historical Institutional Analysis 0 0 0 257 6 11 17 768
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 2 3 5 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 3 41
Total Journal Articles 19 43 138 8,797 77 344 733 33,114


Book File Downloads Abstract Views
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Analytic Narratives 0 0 0 0 0 7 15 144
Institutions and the Path to the Modern Economy 0 0 0 0 6 23 28 48
Institutions and the Path to the Modern Economy 0 0 0 0 3 12 24 69
Institutions, Innovation, and Industrialization: Essays in Economic History and Development 0 0 0 0 1 6 7 290
Total Books 0 0 0 0 10 48 74 551


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 6 17 30
Commitment, Coercion, and Markets: The Nature and Dynamics of Institutions Supporting Exchange 0 0 0 0 13 33 40 40
Commitment, Coercion, and Markets: The Nature and Dynamics of Institutions Supporting Exchange 0 0 0 0 0 13 21 37
Economic history and game theory 0 0 4 458 3 11 22 1,391
Introduction 0 0 1 46 0 3 7 176
Social Organizations, Risk-sharing Institutions, and Economic Development 0 0 0 1 0 4 7 24
Total Chapters 0 0 5 505 16 70 114 1,698


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