Institutions and Development

2013 forthcoming. ‘Institutions and Growth in Historical Perspective’, in Philippe Aghion & Steven Durlauf (eds.), Handbook of Economic Growth (Amsterdam: Elsevier) [with A. W. Carus].

2012 forthcoming. ‘What Lessons for Economic Development Can  We Draw from the Champagne Fairs?’. Explorations in Economic History [with J. S. S. Edwards].

2012 forthcoming. ‘Contract Enforcement, Institutions and Social Capital: the Maghribi Traders Reappraised’, Economic History Review [with J. S. S. Edwards].

2011. ‘Krämer und ihre Waren im ländlichen Württemberg zwischen 1600 und 1740’, Zeitschrift für Agrargeschichte und Agrarsoziologie 59:2, 54-75 (with M. Küpker and J. Maegraith).

2011. Institutions and European Trade: Merchant Guilds, 1000-1800 (Cambridge, Cambridge University Press).
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2011. ‘What Lessons for Economic Development Can  We Draw from the Champagne Fairs?’, CESifo Working Papers, 3438 [with J. S. S. Edwards].
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2010. ‘Consumption, Social Capital, and the “Industrious Revolution” in Early Modern Germany’, Journal of Economic History 70(2): 287-325.
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2009. ‘Community Characteristics and Demographic Development: Three Württemberg Communities, 1558-1914’, Cambridge Working Papers in Economics, 0910 [with M. Küpker & J. C. Maegraith].
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 2008. ‘Contract Enforcement, Institutions and Social Capital: the Maghribi Traders Reappraised’, CESifo Working Papers, 2254 (with Jeremy Edwards).
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2007. ‘ “Whatever Is, Is Right”? Economic Institutions in Pre-Industrial Europe’ [Tawney Lecture], Economic History Review, 60:4, 649-684.
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2008. ‘Rehabilitating the Guilds: a Reply’, Economic History Review, 61:1, 175-182.
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2007. ‘Can We Rehabilitate the Guilds? A Sceptical Re-Appraisal’, Cambridge Working Papers in Economics, 0745 (Sep..
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2007. ‘Serfdom and Social Capital in Bohemia and Russia’, Economic History Review, 60:3, 513-544 (with T. K. Dennison).  PDF download  [This is an electronic version of an article published in The Economic History Review: complete citation information for the final version of the paper,  as published in the print edition of The Economic History Review, is available on the Blackwell Synergy online delivery service, accessible via the journal's website at http://www.blackwellpublishing.com/ehr or http://www.blackwell-synergy.com.]

2005. ‘The Use and Abuse of Trust: Social Capital and its Deployment by Early Modern Guilds’, Jahrbuch für Wirtschaftsgeschichte / Economic History Yearbook, 2005:1, 15-52.

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2004. ‘Guilds, Efficiency and Social Capital: Evidence from German Proto-Industry’, Economic History Review, 57, 286-333.
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2004. ‘Social Capital and Collusion: The Case of Merchant Guilds (Long Version)’, Cambridge Working Papers in Economics, 0417 (with Roberta Dessi). [This version is 76 pages; it includes more empirical examples, a fuller discussion, and precise page references to a more copious secondary literature.]
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2003. ‘Social Capital and Collusion: The Case of Merchant Guilds’, CESifo Working Papers, 1037 (with Roberta Dessi). [This version is 35 pages.] 
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2002. ‘Guilds, Efficiency, and Social Capital: Evidence from German Proto-Industry’, CESifo Working Papers, 820 (University of Munich, Germany, Dec.).
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2000. ‘The European Economy in the Eighteenth Century’, in T. W. C. Blanning (ed.), The Short Oxford History of Europe, Vol. XII: The Eighteenth Century: Europe 1688-1815 (Oxford), 91-130.
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2000. ‘Social Capital, Social Networks, and History' (University of Cambridge, mimeo, June).
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1997. State Corporatism and Proto-Industry: The Württemberg Black Forest 1590-1797  (Cambridge).        Publisher's link - click here
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1997. ‘Soziale Institutionen, Korporatismus und Protoindustrie: die Württembergische Zeugmacherei, 1580-1797’, in D. Ebeling & W. Mager (eds.), Protoindustrie in der Region. Europäischen Gewerbelandschaften vom 16. bis zum 19. Jahrhundert (Bielefeld), 105-138.
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1996. ‘Social Institutions and Proto-industrialization’, in S. C. Ogilvie & M. Cerman (eds.), European Proto-industrialization (Cambridge), 23-37.

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1995. ‘Institutions and Economic Development in Early Modern Central Europe: Proto-industrialization in Württemberg, 1580-1797’, Transactions of the Royal Historical Society, Sixth Series, Vol. 5, 221-250.
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1995. ‘Were Merchant Guilds Really Beneficial? A Comment on Greif, Milgrom, and Weingast' (University of Cambridge, mimeo, Feb.).
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1995. ‘Population Growth and State Policy in Central Europe before Industrialization’, Centre for History and Economics Working Papers (Jun.).
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1994. ‘Soziale Institutionen und Protoindustrialisierung’, in M. Cerman & S. C. Ogilvie (eds.), Protoindustrialisierung in Europa: Industrielle Produktion vor dem Fabrikszeitalter (Vienna), 35-50.
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