Institutions and the path to the modern economy : lessons from medieval trade / Avner Greif.
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2006.
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| Series: | Political economy of institutions and decisions
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Table of Contents:
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Institutions and transactions
- 3. Private-order contract enforcement institutions : the Maghribi traders' coalition
- 4. Securing property rights from the grabbing hand of the state : the merchant guild
- 5. Endogenous institutions and game-theoretic analysis
- 6. A theory of endogenous institutional change
- 7. Institutional trajectories : how past institutions affect current ones
- 8. Building a state : Genoa's rise and fall
- 9. On the origin of distinct institutional trajectories : cultural beliefs and the organization of society
- 10. The institutional foundations of impersonal exchange
- 11. Interactive, context-specific analysis
- 12. Institutions, history, and development
- App. A. A primer in game theory
- App. B. Is homo sociologicus strategic?
- App. C. The role of theory : reputation-based private-order institutions.
- Preliminaries
- Institutions as systems in equilibria
- Institutional dynamics as a historical process
- The empirical method of comparative and historical institutional analysis
- Concluding comments.
