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  1. Cognitive rules, institutions, and economic growth: Douglass North and beyond

    Article • Journal of Institutional Economics, November 2016, Cambridge University Press

    Avner Greif

  2. Institutions and economic history: a critique of professor McCloskey

    Article • Journal of Institutional Economics, December 2015, Cambridge University Press

    Avner Greif

  3. The Rents From Trade and Coercive Institutions: Removing the Sugar Coating

    Article • February 2015, National Bureau of Economic Research

    Avner Greif

  4. Do institutions evolve?

    Article • Journal of Bioeconomics, October 2013, Springer Science + Business Media

    Avner Greif

  5. Social Organizations, Violence, and Modern Growth

    Article • American Economic Review, May 2013, American Economic Association

    Avner Greif

  6. The Maghribi traders: a reappraisal?1

    Article • The Economic History Review, April 2012, Wiley

    Avner Greif

  7. Social Organizations, Risk-sharing Institutions, and Economic Development

    Article • January 2012, Nature

    Avner Greif

  8. Institutions: Rules or Equilibria?

    Article • January 2011, Springer Science + Business Media

    Avner Greif

  9. Introduction to the JCE Symposium on “The Dynamics of Institutions”

    Article • Journal of Comparative Economics, September 2010, Elsevier

    Avner Greif

  10. A theory of moral persistence: Crypto-morality and political legitimacy

    Article • Journal of Comparative Economics, September 2010, Elsevier

    Avner Greif

  11. Cultural and Institutional Bifurcation: China and Europe Compared

    Article • American Economic Review, May 2010, American Economic Association

    Avner Greif

  12. Qu’est-ce que l’analyse institutionnelle ?

    Article • Tracés, November 2009, OpenEdition

    Avner Greif

  13. The curious commentary on the citation practices of Avner Greif

    Article • Public Choice, September 2009, Springer Science + Business Media

    Avner Greif

  14. The Administrative Foundations of Self-Enforcing Constitutions

    Article • American Economic Review, April 2008, American Economic Association

    Professor Saumitra Jha, Avner Greif

  15. Commitment, Coercion and Markets: The Nature and Dynamics of Institutions Supporting Exchange

    Article • January 2008, Springer Science + Business Media

    Avner Greif

  16. History Lessons: The Birth of Impersonal Exchange: The Community Responsibility System and Impartial Justice

    Article • Journal of Economic Perspectives, May 2006, American Economic Association

    Avner Greif

  17. Family Structure, Institutions, and Growth: The Origins and Implications of Western Corporations

    Article • American Economic Review, April 2006, American Economic Association

    Avner Greif

  18. Institutions and the Path to the Modern Economy

    Article • January 2006, Cambridge University Press

    Avner Greif

  19. A Theory of Endogenous Institutional Change

    Article • American Political Science Review, November 2004, Cambridge University Press

    Avner Greif

  20. Institutions and Impersonal Exchange: From Communal to Individual Responsibility

    Article • Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics JITE, March 2002, Mohr Siebeck

    Avner Greif

  21. Chapter 52 Economic history and game theory

    Article • January 2002, Elsevier

    Avner Greif

  22. Impersonal Exchange and the Origin of Markets: From the Community Responsibility System to Individual Legal Responsibility in Pre‐Modern Europe

    Article • May 2001, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Avner Greif

  23. The Analytic Narrative Project. . Analytic Narratives. By Bates Robert H., Greif Avner, Levi Margaret, Rosenthal Jean-Laurent, and Weingast Barry. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1998. 296p. $65.00 cloth, $22.95 paper.

    Article • American Political Science Review, September 2000, Cambridge University Press

    Avner Greif

  24. Analytic Narratives Revisited

    Article • Social Science History, January 2000, Cambridge University Press

    Avner Greif

  25. Théorie des jeux et analyse historique des institutions. Les institutions économiques du Moyen Âge

    Article • Annales Histoire Sciences Sociales, January 1998, PERSEE Program

    Avner Greif

  26. Cultural Beliefs as a Common Resource in an Integrating World

    Article • December 1997, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Avner Greif

  27. Cultural Beliefs and the Organization of Society: A Historical and Theoretical Reflection on Collectivist and Individualist Societies

    Article • Journal of Political Economy, October 1994, University of Chicago Press

    Avner Greif

  28. Coordination, Commitment, and Enforcement: The Case of the Merchant Guild

    Article • Journal of Political Economy, August 1994, University of Chicago Press

    Avner Greif

  29. On the Political Foundations of the Late Medieval Commercial Revolution: Genoa During the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries

    Article • The Journal of Economic History, June 1994, Cambridge University Press

    Avner Greif

  30. The Organization of Long-Distance Trade: Reputation and Coalitions in the Geniza Documents and Genoa During the Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries

    Article • The Journal of Economic History, June 1991, Cambridge University Press

    Avner Greif

  31. Institutions and Impersonal Exchange: The European Experience

    Article • SSRN Electronic Journal, Elsevier

    Avner Greif

  32. North, Douglass Cecil (born 1920)

    Article • Nature

    Avner Greif

  33. Coercion and Exchange: How Did Markets Evolve?

    Article • SSRN Electronic Journal, Elsevier

    Avner Greif

  34. The Maghribi Traders: A Reappraisal?

    Article • SSRN Electronic Journal, Elsevier

    Avner Greif

  35. North, Douglass Cecil (born 1920)

    Article • Nature

    Avner Greif

  36. Economic History and Game Theory: A Survey

    Article • SSRN Electronic Journal, Elsevier

    Avner Greif

  37. Contract Enforcement and Institutions Among the Maghribi Traders: Refuting Edwards and Ogilvie

    Article • SSRN Electronic Journal, Elsevier

    Avner Greif

  38. The Clan and the City: Sustaining Cooperation in China and Europe

    Article • SSRN Electronic Journal, Elsevier

    Avner Greif

  39. A Theory of Moral Persistence: Crypto-Morality and Political Legitimacy

    Article • SSRN Electronic Journal, Elsevier

    Avner Greif

  40. Cultural and Institutional Bifurcation: China and Europe Compared

    Article • SSRN Electronic Journal, Elsevier

    Avner Greif

  41. What Did the Old Poor Law Really Accomplish? A Redux

    Article • SSRN Electronic Journal, Elsevier

    Avner Greif

  42. Preface

    Article • Cambridge University Press

    Avner Greif

  43. Introduction

    Article • Cambridge University Press

    Avner Greif

  44. Institutions and Transactions

    Article • Cambridge University Press

    Avner Greif

  45. Interactive, Context-Specific Analysis

    Article • Cambridge University Press

    Avner Greif

  46. Institutions, History, and Development

    Article • Cambridge University Press

    Avner Greif

  47. Is Homo Sociologicus Strategic?

    Article • Cambridge University Press

    Avner Greif

  48. References

    Article • Cambridge University Press

    Avner Greif

  49. Self-enforcing Political System and Economic Growth: Late Medieval Genoa

    Article • SSRN Electronic Journal, Elsevier

    Avner Greif

  50. The Impact of Administrative Power on Political and Economic Developments: Toward Political Economy of Implementation

    Article • SSRN Electronic Journal, Elsevier

    Avner Greif

  51. Risk, Institutions and Growth: Why England and Not China?

    Article • SSRN Electronic Journal, Elsevier

    Avner Greif

  52. Commitment, Coercion, and Markets: The Nature and Dynamics of Institutions Supporting Exchange

    Article • Springer Science + Business Media

    Avner Greif

  53. Micro Theory and Recent Developments in the Study of Economic Institutions Through Economic History

    Article • SSRN Electronic Journal, Elsevier

    Avner Greif