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A Conceptual Framework for Interpreting Recorded Human History 1 2 6 1,607 4 6 21 3,016
A Transaction Cost Theory of Politics 0 0 0 15 7 12 47 7,252
Autobiography 0 0 1 95 0 1 2 237
Economic Performance Through Time: The Limits to Knowledge 1 1 13 3,519 2 3 32 6,740
Economic Performance through Time 1 1 12 940 4 8 39 1,969
Economics and Cognitive Science 0 1 5 2,484 3 6 11 5,267
Expert Panel Ranking 0 0 0 0 1 1 3 158
Expert Panel Ranking 0 0 0 0 0 0 8 36
Five Propositions about Institutional Change 3 5 24 4,412 5 12 55 7,613
INSTITUTIONAL CHANGE: A FRAMEWORK OF ANALYSIS 2 7 35 7,324 12 29 150 20,595
INSTITUTIONAL COMPETITION 0 0 2 2,309 1 2 11 4,304
INSTITUTIONS AND PRODUCTIVITY IN HISTORY 0 1 3 2,308 1 3 16 4,401
INSTITUTIONS MATTER 3 12 54 5,414 15 42 212 12,448
INSTITUTIONS, ORGANIZATIONS AND MARKET COMPETITION 1 3 8 4,153 2 4 14 6,880
Institutions and Credible Commitment 2 3 7 2,704 6 9 27 5,819
Institutions, Transaction Costs and Productivity in the Long Run 2 3 6 2,497 7 15 35 4,735
La teoría de la localización y el crecimiento económico regional 2 3 4 70 4 7 12 156
Learning, Institutions, and Economic Performance 0 2 5 2,459 2 4 9 3,525
Limited access orders in the developing world:a new approach to the problems of development 1 4 24 2,350 19 37 123 5,293
PRIVATIZATION, INCENTIVES AND ECONOMIC PERFORMANCE 0 1 6 2,082 1 3 16 3,750
SOME FUNDAMENTAL PUZZLES IN ECONOMIC HISTORY/DEVELOPMENT 0 0 2 2,897 3 5 22 5,630
Shared Mental Models: Ideologies and Institutions 3 4 20 4,756 9 22 65 12,009
THE EVOLUTION OF EFFICIENT MARKETS IN HISTORY 0 1 3 2,152 4 7 14 4,480
TRANSACTION COSTS THROUGH TIME 1 5 14 3,042 1 8 23 6,024
The Historical Evolution of Polities 1 2 7 1,759 2 4 11 3,283
The New Institutional Economics and Development 9 14 73 8,902 24 61 234 17,868
The Paradox of the West 3 3 16 2,643 7 13 52 7,376
The Process of Economic Change 0 0 0 19 0 0 5 60
The Process of Economic Change 0 0 1 25 2 5 17 90
The Process of Economic Change 0 0 0 16 2 2 6 4,917
The Role of Institutions in Economic Development 3 12 43 4,332 18 38 106 9,249
WHERE HAVE WE BEEN AND WHERE ARE WE GOING? 0 0 2 2,213 0 0 5 4,594
Total Working Papers 39 90 396 79,498 168 369 1,403 179,774


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A Conversation with Douglass North 1 2 3 75 3 4 9 163
A Recommendation on How to Intelligently Approach Emerging Problems in Intellectual Property Systems 0 0 0 206 1 1 2 375
A Short History of Economic Progress. By Y. S. Brenner. London: Frank Cass & Company Limited, 1969. Pp. 295. $5.95 paper. - Economic Growth in History, Survey and Analysis. By J. D. Gould. New York: Barnes & Noble Books, 1973. Pp. 446. $7.50 paper, $15.00 cloth. - Economic Development in the Long Run. Edited by A. J. Youngson. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1973. Pp. 253. $9.95 cloth 0 0 1 28 1 1 3 131
A Transaction Cost Theory of Politics 2 12 44 960 9 34 115 1,978
A framework for analyzing the state in economic history 0 1 2 511 0 4 9 905
Agenda For A History Of Management Policies Towards Labor In The United States* 0 0 0 7 0 1 1 42
Agriculture in Regional Economic Growth 1 1 8 67 2 3 15 140
American Government Expenditures: A Historical Perspective 0 0 0 299 0 1 1 859
An Economic Theory of the Growth of the Western World 6 10 24 336 18 24 52 813
Aprendizaje, instituciones y desempeno económico 0 0 1 91 2 3 4 213
Beyond the New Economic History 1 1 2 82 1 5 6 162
Big-Bang Transformations of Economic Systems - An Introductory Note 0 0 0 0 1 1 5 774
Cliometrics--Forty Years Later 0 0 3 607 1 2 6 1,244
Comment 0 0 1 15 0 0 2 63
Comment 0 0 0 14 0 2 2 62
Comment on Stigler and Friedland, "The Literature of Economics: The Case of Berle and Means." 0 0 0 10 1 1 2 616
Comment on the Riker paper 0 0 0 1 0 2 2 27
Constitutions and Commitment: The Evolution of Institutions Governing Public Choice in Seventeenth-Century England 12 27 81 1,463 39 80 257 4,308
Desempeño Económico en el Transcurso de los Años 0 0 0 446 1 2 2 859
Economic Performance through Time 0 0 0 38 14 27 82 6,018
Economic growth: What have we learned from the past? 2 2 6 144 2 2 7 283
El desempeño económico a lo largo del tiempo 0 0 0 0 3 9 21 1,220
Exports and Regional Economic Growth: A Reply 0 1 4 110 1 3 16 267
Exports and economic growth 1 1 1 124 1 2 2 263
General and Miscellaneous - The European Miracle: Environments, Economies, and Geopolitics in the History of Europe and Asia. By Eric Jones. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1981. Pp. ix, 276. $29.50 cloth, $9.95 paper 0 0 1 63 1 2 6 203
Government and the Cost of Exchange in History 0 1 4 204 0 2 9 379
How the West Grew Rich: The Economic Transformation of the Industrial World. By Nathan Rosenberg and L. E. BirdzellJr., (New York: Basic Books, Inc., 1986. Pp. xii + 353. $19.95.) 0 0 0 13 0 1 4 41
Ideology and Political/Economic Institutions 0 1 4 166 1 4 11 306
In the Shadow of Violence: Lessons for Limited Access Societies 0 0 1 2 0 1 6 13
Index of Economic Journals: Vol. I, 1886–1924, 270 pp.; Vol. II, 1925–1939, 470 pp.; Vol. III, 1940–1949, 467 pp.; Vol. IV, 1950–1954, 389 pp.; and Vol. V, 1954–1959, 533 pp. (Prepared under the auspices of The American Economic Association.) Homewood, Illinois: Richard D. Irwin, Inc. Vols. I, II, and III were published in 1961; Vols. IV and V, 1962. $25.00 (five-volume set) 0 0 0 12 0 1 1 81
Institutional Change and American Economic Growth: A First Step Towards a Theory of Institutional Innovation 2 2 8 189 4 9 28 436
Institutional Change and Economic Growth 2 5 9 401 6 10 25 682
Institutional Changes: A Framework of Analysis 0 0 0 0 3 7 17 2,142
Institutionen, institutioneller Wandel und Wirtschaftsleistung 0 0 1 16 1 1 4 43
Institutions 18 39 89 3,825 73 157 396 6,974
Institutions and Economic Theory 0 2 9 106 2 15 44 301
Institutions and Economic Theory 1 1 7 104 2 3 19 246
Institutions and economic growth: An historical introduction 6 9 40 2,619 11 24 96 5,038
Institutions, Ideology, and Economic Performance 2 4 22 545 5 17 81 1,343
Institutions, Transaction Costs and Economic Growth 0 0 0 0 10 16 37 3,409
International Capital Flows and the Development of the American West 1 1 2 26 2 2 4 90
La evolución de las economías en el transcurso del tiempo* 0 0 0 68 2 2 3 132
La evolución histórica de las formas de gobierno 1 2 2 782 2 4 7 3,790
Life Insurance and Investment Banking at the Time of the Armstrong Investigation of 1905-1906* 2 4 4 35 3 8 12 148
Location Theory and Regional Economic Growth 4 16 63 1,747 9 34 115 3,949
Measures and Men. By Witold Kula. Translated by Richard Szreter. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1986. Pp. 386. $39.50 0 0 0 130 0 2 2 480
New Directions in Political Economy: An Approach from Anthropology. Edited by Madeline Barbara Léons and Frances Rothstein. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1979. Pp. xxvii, 350. $25.00 0 0 0 17 1 1 2 85
O Crescimento Econômico Regional: Quatro Conferências do Professor Douglass C. North 0 1 1 38 0 1 7 67
Ocean Freight Rates and Economic Development 1730-1913 4 9 14 233 5 16 34 762
Reply to Professor D. Ringrose 0 0 0 20 0 0 1 59
Reply to “The First Economic Revolution” As Fiction 0 0 0 14 0 0 1 51
Reviews 0 0 0 7 1 1 3 47
Shared Mental Models: Ideologies and Institutions 1 1 3 93 9 14 29 5,089
Sources of Productivity Change in Ocean Shipping, 1600-1850 1 6 8 481 3 11 20 1,301
Structure and Performance: The Task of Economic History 0 1 7 644 5 10 26 1,324
THE ROLE OF INSTITUTIONS IN THE REVIVAL OF TRADE: THE LAW MERCHANT, PRIVATE JUDGES, AND THE CHAMPAGNE FAIRS 4 10 28 417 13 28 62 1,083
THE SPATIAL AND INTERREGIONAL FRAME WORK OF THE U.S. ECONOMY 1 1 1 1 2 4 7 25
The First Economic Revolution 1 2 3 100 2 4 11 312
The First Industrial Revolution. By Phyllis Deane. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1965. Pp. vii, 295. $8.00 (clothbound); $2.95 (paperback) 0 0 0 83 0 0 1 430
The Livelihood of Man. By Karl Polanyi. New York, Academic Press, Inc., 1977. Pp. lv + 280. $17.50 1 1 3 27 1 2 10 103
The Place of Economic History in the Discipline of Economics 0 0 0 0 1 1 3 906
The Rise and Fall of the Manorial System: A Theoretical Model 0 0 2 208 1 3 12 590
The Sources of Economic Growth in The United States and the Alternatives Before Us. By Edward F. Denison. New York: Committee for Economic Development, 1962. Pp. 308. $4.00 (paperback) 0 1 4 720 1 4 13 2,175
The Vital One: Essays in Honor of Jonathan R. T. Hughes. Edited by Joel Mokyr. Research in Economic History Supplement 6. Greenwich, CT: JAI Press, 1991 0 0 1 50 1 3 6 153
The growth of government in the United States: An economic historian's perspective 0 0 2 245 1 3 8 644
The historical evolution of polities 2 3 3 473 2 5 8 860
Toward a Property-Rights Theory of Exploitation 0 0 1 24 1 1 2 46
What Do We Mean by Rationality? 0 0 0 0 1 2 10 895
Total Journal Articles 80 181 528 20,582 289 650 1,826 69,018
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Institutions, Institutional Change and Economic Performance 0 0 0 0 124 298 660 806
Institutions, Institutional Change and Economic Performance 0 0 0 0 12 24 80 191
The Rise of the Western World 0 0 0 0 1 8 16 592
Violence and Social Orders 0 0 0 0 0 4 16 1,155
Violence and Social Orders 0 0 0 0 2 3 7 205
Total Books 0 0 0 0 139 337 779 2,949


Chapter File Downloads Abstract Views
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A revolution in economics 0 1 2 81 1 3 4 173
Industrialization in the United States (1815–60) 0 0 0 0 1 3 14 38
Industrialization in the United States (1815–60) 0 0 0 1 0 1 4 14
Institutions and the Performance of Economies Over Time 0 0 0 1 2 3 13 45
Institutions and the Performance of Economies Over Time 0 0 0 0 2 3 3 3
Institutions and the Performance of Economies over Time 1 1 1 2 1 1 4 38
Introduction to Understanding the Process of Economic Change 3 5 11 1,118 7 20 54 2,645
Legal Change in Economic Analysis 0 0 2 52 0 3 6 79
Measuring the Transaction Sector in the American Economy, 1870-1970 0 0 4 537 3 11 35 1,515
The Institutional Foundations of East Asian Development: A Summary Evaluation 0 0 0 0 2 2 5 9
The Theoretical Tools of the Economic Historian 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 6
The United States Balance of Payments, 1790-1860 0 0 1 87 0 1 5 240
Understanding institutions 1 3 13 360 3 8 24 958
Total Chapters 5 10 34 2,239 22 59 172 5,763


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