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Working Papers
2023
- Endogenous Political Legitimacy: The Tudor Roots of England’s Constitutional Governance
Working Papers, Chapman University, Economic Science Institute View citations (2)
2022
- Political Legitimacy in Historical Political Economy
Working Papers, Chapman University, Economic Science Institute
2018
- Spatial Competition, Innovation and Institutions: The Industrial Revolution and the Great Divergence
NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (3)
Also in CEPR Discussion Papers, C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers (2017) 
See also Journal Article Spatial competition, innovation and institutions: the Industrial Revolution and the Great Divergence, Journal of Economic Growth, Springer (2020) View citations (18) (2020)
2015
- Outside Options, Coercion, and Wages: Removing the Sugar Coating
NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (5)
See also Journal Article Outside Options, Coercion, and Wages: Removing the Sugar Coating, The Economic Journal, Royal Economic Society (2020) View citations (5) (2020)
- The Clan and the Corporation: Sustaining Cooperation in China and Europe
CESifo Working Paper Series, CESifo View citations (8)
See also Journal Article The clan and the corporation: Sustaining cooperation in China and Europe, Journal of Comparative Economics, Elsevier (2017) View citations (99) (2017)
2013
- Social Organizations, Violence & Modern Growth
IZA Discussion Papers, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA) View citations (12)
- What Did the Old Poor Law Really Accomplish? A Redux
IZA Discussion Papers, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA) View citations (4)
2012
- The Clan and the City: Sustaining Cooperation in China and Europe
Working Papers, IGIER (Innocenzo Gasparini Institute for Economic Research), Bocconi University View citations (24)
Also in CEPR Discussion Papers, C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers (2012) View citations (25)
2011
- Risk, Institutions and Growth: Why England and Not China?
IZA Discussion Papers, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA) View citations (6)
2010
- A Theory of Moral Persistence: Crypto-Morality and Political Legitimacy
Discussion Papers, Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research View citations (41)
See also Journal Article A theory of moral persistence: Crypto-morality and political legitimacy, Journal of Comparative Economics, Elsevier (2010) View citations (35) (2010)
- Cultural and Institutional Bifurcation: China and Europe Compared
CEPR Discussion Papers, C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers View citations (123)
Also in Working Papers, IGIER (Innocenzo Gasparini Institute for Economic Research), Bocconi University (2009) View citations (7)
See also Journal Article Cultural and Institutional Bifurcation: China and Europe Compared, American Economic Review, American Economic Association (2010) View citations (123) (2010)
2008
- Contract Enforcement and Institutions among the Maghribi Traders: Refuting Edwards and Ogilvie
Discussion Papers, Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research View citations (2)
Also in CESifo Working Paper Series, CESifo (2008) View citations (2) MPRA Paper, University Library of Munich, Germany (2008) View citations (1)
2004
- Institutions and Development
CID Working Papers, Center for International Development at Harvard University View citations (1)
2001
- Organizing Violence
CID Working Papers, Center for International Development at Harvard University 
See also Journal Article Organizing Violence, Journal of Conflict Resolution, Peace Science Society (International) (2002) View citations (50) (2002)
1997
- 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
Working Papers, Stanford University, Department of Economics View citations (3)
- Self-enforcing Political System and Economic Growth: Late Medieval Genoa
Working Papers, Stanford University, Department of Economics View citations (15)
1995
- A Transactions-Cost Theory of Agglomeration Economies
Working Papers, Stanford University, Department of Economics View citations (4)
Undated
- Economic History and Game Theory: a Survey
Working Papers, Stanford University, Department of Economics View citations (4)
- Micro Theory and Recent Developments in the Study of Economic Institutions Through Economic History
Working Papers, Stanford University, Department of Economics View citations (7)
Journal Articles
2024
- Endogenous Political Legitimacy: The Tudor Roots of England’s Constitutional Governance
The Journal of Economic History, 2024, 84, (3), 655-689
2020
- Outside Options, Coercion, and Wages: Removing the Sugar Coating
The Economic Journal, 2020, 130, (630), 1678-1714 View citations (5)
See also Working Paper Outside Options, Coercion, and Wages: Removing the Sugar Coating, NBER Working Papers (2015) View citations (5) (2015)
- Spatial competition, innovation and institutions: the Industrial Revolution and the Great Divergence
Journal of Economic Growth, 2020, 25, (1), 1-35 View citations (18)
See also Working Paper Spatial Competition, Innovation and Institutions: The Industrial Revolution and the Great Divergence, NBER Working Papers (2018) View citations (3) (2018)
2017
- Cognitive rules, institutions, and economic growth: Douglass North and beyond
Journal of Institutional Economics, 2017, 13, (1), 25-52 View citations (17)
- The clan and the corporation: Sustaining cooperation in China and Europe
Journal of Comparative Economics, 2017, 45, (1), 1-35 View citations (99)
See also Working Paper The Clan and the Corporation: Sustaining Cooperation in China and Europe, CESifo Working Paper Series (2015) View citations (8) (2015)
2016
- Institutions and economic history: a critique of professor McCloskey
Journal of Institutional Economics, 2016, 12, (1), 29-41 View citations (5)
2014
- Do institutions evolve?
Journal of Bioeconomics, 2014, 16, (1), 53-60 View citations (6)
- 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
The Journal of Economic History, 2014, 74, (2), 648-649
2013
- Social Organizations, Violence, and Modern Growth
American Economic Review, 2013, 103, (3), 534-38 View citations (12)
2012
- The Maghribi traders: a reappraisal?
Economic History Review, 2012, 65, (2), 445-469 View citations (11)
2010
- A theory of moral persistence: Crypto-morality and political legitimacy
Journal of Comparative Economics, 2010, 38, (3), 229-244 View citations (35)
See also Working Paper A Theory of Moral Persistence: Crypto-Morality and Political Legitimacy, Discussion Papers (2010) View citations (41) (2010)
- Cultural and Institutional Bifurcation: China and Europe Compared
American Economic Review, 2010, 100, (2), 135-40 View citations (123)
See also Working Paper Cultural and Institutional Bifurcation: China and Europe Compared, CEPR Discussion Papers (2010) View citations (123) (2010)
- Introduction to the JCE Symposium on "The Dynamics of Institutions"
Journal of Comparative Economics, 2010, 38, (3), 227-228
2009
- The curious commentary on the citation practices of Avner Greif
Public Choice, 2009, 141, (3), 273-275
2008
- The Administrative Foundations of Self-Enforcing Constitutions
American Economic Review, 2008, 98, (2), 105-09 View citations (27)
2006
- Family Structure, Institutions, and Growth: The Origins and Implications of Western Corporations
American Economic Review, 2006, 96, (2), 308-312 View citations (90)
- History Lessons: The Birth of Impersonal Exchange: The Community Responsibility System and Impartial Justice
Journal of Economic Perspectives, 2006, 20, (2), 221-236 View citations (48)
2004
- A Theory of Endogenous Institutional Change
American Political Science Review, 2004, 98, (4), 633-652 View citations (147)
2002
- Institutions and Impersonal Exchange: From Communal to Individual Responsibility
Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics (JITE), 2002, 158, (1), 168-204 View citations (60)
- Organizing Violence
Journal of Conflict Resolution, 2002, 46, (5), 599-628 View citations (50)
See also Working Paper Organizing Violence, CID Working Papers (2001) (2001)
2000
- Ancient And Medieval - Trade, Trust, and Networks: Commercial Culture in Late Medieval Italy. By Gunnar Dahl.Lund: Nordic Academic Press, 1998. Pp. 355
The Journal of Economic History, 2000, 60, (1), 272-273
- 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
American Political Science Review, 2000, 94, (3), 696-702 View citations (4)
- The fundamental problem of exchange: A research agenda in Historical Institutional Analysis
European Review of Economic History, 2000, 4, (3), 251-284 View citations (76)
1998
- Genoa and the Genoese, 958–1528. By Steven A. Epstein. 1996. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press. Pp. 396. $45.00, cloth
The Journal of Economic History, 1998, 58, (4), 1129-1130
- Historical and Comparative Institutional Analysis
American Economic Review, 1998, 88, (2), 80-84 View citations (74)
1997
- Cliometrics after Forty Years
American Economic Review, 1997, 87, (2), 400-403 View citations (2)
- 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
The Journal of Economic History, 1997, 57, (3), 747-749
1996
- The Study of Organizations and Evolving Organizational Forms through History: Reflections from the Late Medieval Family Firm
Industrial and Corporate Change, 1996, 5, (2), 473-501 View citations (5)
1995
- A Mediterranean Emporium: The Catalan Kingdom of Majorca. By David Abulafia. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994. Pp. 292. $59.95
The Journal of Economic History, 1995, 55, (1), 163-165
- 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
The Journal of Economic History, 1995, 55, (4), 923-924
- 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
The Journal of Economic History, 1995, 55, (2), 413-414
- The Sovereign State and Its Competitors: An Analysis of Systems Change. By Hendrik Spruyt. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1994. Pp. 288
The Journal of Economic History, 1995, 55, (4), 972-973
1994
- Coordination, Commitment, and Enforcement: The Case of the Merchant Guild
Journal of Political Economy, 1994, 102, (4), 745-76 View citations (279)
- Cultural Beliefs and the Organization of Society: A Historical and Theoretical Reflection on Collectivist and Individualist Societies
Journal of Political Economy, 1994, 102, (5), 912-50 View citations (831)
- On the Political Foundations of the Late Medieval Commercial Revolution: Genoa During the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries
The Journal of Economic History, 1994, 54, (2), 271-287 View citations (28)
1993
- Contract Enforceability and Economic Institutions in Early Trade: the Maghribi Traders' Coalition
American Economic Review, 1993, 83, (3), 525-48 View citations (1116)
1992
- Institutions and International Trade: Lessons from the Commercial Revolution
American Economic Review, 1992, 82, (2), 128-33 View citations (61)
1991
- The Organization of Long-Distance Trade: Reputation and Coalitions in the Geniza Documents and Genoa During the Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries
The Journal of Economic History, 1991, 51, (2), 459-462 View citations (6)
1990
- 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
The Journal of Economic History, 1990, 50, (2), 455-456
1989
- Reputation and Coalitions in Medieval Trade: Evidence on the Maghribi Traders
The Journal of Economic History, 1989, 49, (4), 857-882 View citations (391)
Books
2015
- Institutions, Innovation, and Industrialization: Essays in Economic History and Development
Economics Books, Princeton University Press View citations (7)
2006
- Institutions and the Path to the Modern Economy
Cambridge Books, Cambridge University Press View citations (763)
Also in Cambridge Books, Cambridge University Press (2006) View citations (763)
1998
- Analytic Narratives
Economics Books, Princeton University Press View citations (154)
Chapters
2015
- Introduction
A chapter in Institutions, Innovation, and Industrialization: Essays in Economic History and Development, 2015
2012
- Social Organizations, Risk-sharing Institutions, and Economic Development
Palgrave Macmillan View citations (3)
2008
- Commitment, Coercion and Markets: The Nature and Dynamics of Institutions Supporting Exchange
Springer View citations (3)
Also in Springer (2005) View citations (96)
2002
- Economic history and game theory
Chapter 52 in Handbook of Game Theory with Economic Applications, 2002, vol. 3, pp 1989-2024 View citations (5)
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