Institutions and the Path to the Modern Economy Lessons from Medieval Trade

Name: Institutions and the Path to the Modern Economy Lessons from Medieval Trade
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ISBN: 9780521671347

ISBN-10: 0521671345

ISBN-13: 9780521671347

Edition: 2005

Authors: Avner Greif, Randall Calvert, Thrainn Eggertsson

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Book details

List price: $36.99
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 1/16/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 526
Size: 5.98" wide x 9.02" long x 1.18" tall
Weight: 1.760
Language: English



Abbreviations


Preface



Preliminaries



Introduction



Institutions and Transactions



Institutions as Systems in Equilibria



Private-Order Contract Enforcement Institutions: The Maghribi Traders' Coalition



Securing Property Rights from the Grabbing Hand of the State: The Merchant Guild



Endogenous Institutions and Game-Theoretic Analysis



Institutional Dynamics as a Historical Process



A Theory of Endogenous Institutional Change



Institutional Trajectories: How Past Institutions Affect Current Ones



Building a State: Genoa's Rise and Fall



On the Origin of Distinct Institutional Trajectories: Cultural Beliefs and the Organization of Society



The Empirical Method of Comparative and Historical Institutional Analysis



The Institutional Foundations of Impersonal Exchange



Interactive, Context-Specific Analysis



Concluding Comments



Institutions, History, and Development


Appendixes



A Primer in Game Theory



Is Homo Sociologicus Strategic?



The Role of Theory: Reputation-Based Private-Order Institutions


References


Index