Avner Greif
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American economist
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Avner Greif's Degrees
- PhD Economics Northwestern University
- Masters Economics Northwestern University
- Bachelors Economics Tel Aviv University
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Avner Greif is an economics professor at Stanford University, Stanford, California. He holds a chaired professorship as Bowman Family Professor in the Humanities and Sciences. Greif received his PhD in Economics at Northwestern University, where Joel Mokyr acted as his supervisor, in 1989 and started his career at Stanford University in 1989 until he received tenure in 1994. In 1998 he received a 'genius grant' from the MacArthur Foundation. His works deal with economic history and role of institutions in economic development, including analysis of trade in medieval Europe and Levant.
Avner Greif's Published Works
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Published Works
- Contract Enforceability and Economic Institutions in Early Trade: the Maghribi Traders' Coalition (1993) (2408)
- Cultural Beliefs and the Organization of Society: A Historical and Theoretical Reflection on Collectivist and Individualist Societies (1994) (2351)
- Reputation and Coalitions in Medieval Trade: Evidence on the Maghribi Traders (1989) (1214)
- Coordination, Commitment, and Enforcement: The Case of the Merchant Guild (1994) (1116)
- Institutions and the Path to the Modern Economy: Lessons from Medieval Trade (an Excerpt) (2006) (924)
- A Theory of Endogenous Institutional Change (2004) (855)
- Institutions and the Path to the Modern Economy: Building a State: Genoa's Rise and Fall (2006) (326)
- Commitment, Coercion and Markets: The Nature and Dynamics of Institutions Supporting Exchange (2005) (304)
- Cultural and Institutional Bifurcation: China and Europe Compared (2010) (295)
- Historical and Comparative Institutional Analysis (1998) (266)
- The fundamental problem of exchange: A research agenda in Historical Institutional Analysis (2000) (240)
- Organizing Violence (2002) (214)
- Family Structure, Institutions, and Growth: The Origins and Implications of Western Corporations (2006) (209)
- Institutions and International Trade: Lessons from the Commercial Revolution (1992) (206)
- Institutions: Rules or Equilibria? (2011) (196)
- The Clan and the Corporation: Sustaining Cooperation in China and Europe (2015) (169)
- Self-Enforcing Political System and Economic Growth: Late Medieval Genoa (1997) (169)
- The Century of Education (2009) (150)
- Institutions and Impersonal Exchange: From Communal to Individual Responsibility (2002) (130)
- The Analytic Narrative Project (2000) (130)
- On the Political Foundations of the Late Medieval Commercial Revolution: Genoa During the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries (1994) (129)
- History Lessons The Birth of Impersonal Exchange: The Community Responsibility System and Impartial Justice (2006) (122)
- Trust, Ethnicity, and Identity (1995) (115)
- Institutions and the Path to the Modern Economy: Preliminaries (2006) (99)
- Micro Theory and Recent Developments in the Study of Economic Institutions Through Economic History (1997) (96)
- Contracting , Enforcement , and Efficiency : Economics Beyond the Law (1997) (94)
- Contract Enforcement and Institutions Among the Maghribi Traders: Refuting Edwards and Ogilvie (2008) (78)
- The Administrative Foundations of Self-Enforcing Constitutions (2008) (70)
- The Clan and the City: Sustaining Cooperation in China and Europe (2012) (67)
- Freedom and Growth: The Rise of States and Markets in Europe, 1300-1750 (review) (2001) (67)
- Impersonal Exchange without Impartial Law: The Community Responsibility System (2004) (66)
- The Maghribi Traders: A Reappraisal? (2012) (66)
- The Impact of Administrative Power on Political and Economic Developments: Toward Political Economy of Implementation (2007) (63)
- A Theory of Moral Persistence: Crypto-Morality and Political Legitimacy (2010) (61)
- Cognitive rules, institutions, and economic growth: Douglass North and beyond (2016) (60)
- The Rents from Trade and Coercive Institutions: Removing the Sugar Coating (2015) (39)
- On the Interrelations and Economic Implications of Economic , Social , Political , and Normative Factors : Reflections From Two Late Medieval Societies (1997) (37)
- Social Organizations, Violence, and Modern Growth (2013) (36)
- Institutions and the Path to the Modern Economy: On the Origin of Distinct Institutional Trajectories: Cultural Beliefs and the Organization of Society (2006) (33)
- Institutions and the Path to the Modern Economy: Institutional Trajectories: How Past Institutions Affect Current Ones (2006) (32)
- Analytic Narratives Revisited (2000) (32)
- The Organization of Long-Distance Trade: Reputation and Coalitions in the Geniza Documents and Genoa During the Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries (1991) (32)
- Impersonal Exchange and the Origin of Markets: From the Community Responsibility System to Individual Legal Responsibility in Pre‐Modern Europe (2001) (30)
- What Did the Old Poor Law Really Accomplish? A Redux (2013) (28)
- Spatial competition, innovation and institutions: the Industrial Revolution and the Great Divergence (2017) (27)
- Endogenous Political Legitimacy: The English Reformation and the Institutional Foundations of Limited Government (cid:3) (2015) (27)
- The Study of Organizations and Evolving Organizational Forms through History: Reflections from the Late Medieval Family Firm (1996) (26)
- The Analytical Narrative Project The Harvard community has made this article openly available. Please share how this access benefits you. Your story matters (2007) (24)
- 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 (1997) (24)
- Communication in couples and families (1979) (24)
- Coercion and Exchange: How Did Markets Evolve? (2008) (23)
- Economic History and Game Theory: A Survey (1998) (22)
- Institutions and Impersonal Exchange: The European Experience (2004) (22)
- Outside Options, Coercion, and Wages: Removing the Sugar Coating (2015) (19)
- Economic history and game theory (2002) (19)
- Cliometrics after Forty Years (1997) (17)
- Institutions and economic history: a critique of professor McCloskey (2015) (17)
- Risk, Institutions and Growth: Why England and Not China? (2011) (16)
- Institutions and the Path to the Modern Economy: Institutions and Transactions (2006) (14)
- Cliometrics After 40 Years (2016) (14)
- Cultural Beliefs as a Common Resource in an Integrating World (1997) (14)
- Advances in Economics and Econometrics: Theory and Applications: Microtheory and recent developments in the study of economic institutions through economic history (1997) (13)
- Social Institutions and Economic Growth: Why England and Not China Became the First Modern Economy (2012) (11)
- Political Organizations, Social Structure, and Institutional Success: Reflections From Genoa and Venice During the Commercial Revolution (2016) (10)
- 1 Family Structure , Institutions , and Growth : The Origin and Implications of Western Corporatism (2005) (10)
- On the History of the Institutional Foundations of Impersonal Exchange : From Communal to Individual Responsibility in Pre-modern Europe (2001) (9)
- Do institutions evolve? (2014) (8)
- A Transactions-Cost Theory of Agglomeration Economies (1995) (8)
- Organizing Violence: Wealth, Power, and Limited Government (2000) (7)
- Review: The Analytical Narrative Project (2007) (7)
- Institutions, Innovation, and Industrialization: Essays in Economic History and Development (2015) (6)
- Self-enforcing Institutions : Comparative and Historical Institutional Analysis 1 (2004) (6)
- Social Institutions and Economic Growth : Why England Rather than China Became the First Modern Economy (2013) (5)
- The Impact of Administrative Power on Political and Economic Developments: (2008) (5)
- The Normative Foundations of Institutions and Institutional Change (2008) (5)
- Social Organizations, Risk-sharing Institutions, and Economic Development (2012) (5)
- Social Institutions, Violence, and Innovations: Did the Old Poor Law Matter? (2012) (5)
- The Game-Theoretic Revolution in Comparative and Historical Institutional Analysis (2002) (5)
- Export Booms and Labor Coercion: Evidence from the Lancashire Cotton Famine (2020) (4)
- Institutions and the Path to the Modern Economy: Institutions, History, and Development (2006) (4)
- The Sovereign State and Its Competitors: An Analysis of Systems Change. By Hendrik Spruyt. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1994. Pp. 288 (1995) (3)
- Resubmitted to the Journal of the European Economic Association Social Cohesion, Culture and Economic Behaviour: Irish Dairying Before the Great War (2004) (3)
- The curious commentary on the citation practices of Avner Greif (2009) (3)
- Social Organizations, Violence & Modern Growth (2013) (3)
- Soft Budget Constraints, Pecuniary Externality, and China’s Financial Dual Track (2000) (2)
- Institutions and the Path to the Modern Economy: Endogenous Institutions and Game-Theoretic Analysis (2006) (2)
- Monitoring, Expropriating, and Interfering: Concentrated Ownership, Government Holdings, and Firm Value on the Ghana Stock Exchange (2012) (2)
- The Institutional Basis of Political Legitimacy : The Reformation and the Origin of the Modern Economy in England (2013) (2)
- Institutions and the Path to the Modern Economy: Introduction (2006) (2)
- Institutions and the Path to the Modern Economy: Private-Order Contract Enforcement Institutions: The Maghribi Traders' Coalition (2006) (2)
- Institutions and the Path to the Modern Economy: A Theory of Endogenous Institutional Change (2006) (2)
- Spatial competition, innovation and institutions: the Industrial Revolution and the Great Divergence (2019) (1)
- Trade and Institutions in the Medieval Mediterranean: The Geniza Merchants and Their Business World. By Goldberg Jessica L.. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 2012. Pp. xxi, 426. $114.00, hardcover (2014) (1)
- Society and State in Determining Economic Outcomes (2016) (1)
- Introduction to the JCE Symposium on "The Dynamics of Institutions" (2010) (1)
- Endogenous Political Legitimacy: The Tudor Roots of England’s Constitutional Governance (2023) (1)
- Contract Governance in Small-World Networks: The Case of the Maghribi Traders (2019) (1)
- Institutions and the Path to the Modern Economy: The Institutional Foundations of Impersonal Exchange (2006) (1)
- Self-Enforcing Political Systems and Economic Growth: (2020) (1)
- Institutions and the Path to the Modern Economy: The Role of Theory: Reputation-Based Private-Order Institutions (2006) (0)
- The Economic History of China: From Antiquity to the Nineteenth Century by Richard von Glahn (review) (2019) (0)
- Medieval and Early Modern (1995) (0)
- FOREWORD:: Institutions, Markets, and Games (2020) (0)
- Do institutions evolve? (2013) (0)
- 6237 SOCIAL SCIENCE HISTORY 24:4 (2005) (0)
- Price Competition in Segmented Industries (1993) (0)
- Ancient And Medieval (2000) (0)
- Institutions and the Path to the Modern Economy: The Empirical Method of Comparative and Historical Institutional Analysis (2006) (0)
- A Mediterranean Emporium: The Catalan Kingdom of Majorca. By David Abulafia. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994. Pp. 292. $59.95 (1995) (0)
- Work ( s ) : Analytic Narratives by (2007) (0)
- Trade, Trust, and Networks: Commercial Culture in Late Medieval Italy. By Gunnar Dahl. Lund: Nordic Academic Press, 1998. Pp. 355. (2000) (0)
- Medieval and Early Modern (1990) (0)
- COERCION AND EXCHANGE (2020) (0)
- Institutions and the Path to the Modern Economy: A Primer in Game Theory (2006) (0)
- Rules of Law and Economic Realities: an Historical Reconsideration (2005) (0)
- Introduction [Institutions, Innovation, and Industrialization: Essays in Economic History and Development] (2015) (0)
- Analytic Narratives by Bates, Greif, Levi, Rosenthal, and Weingast: A Review and Response Rational Choice History: A Case of Excessive Ambition (2000) (0)
- United States and Canada (1997) (0)
- Analytic Narratives Revisited The Harvard community has made this article openly available. Please share how this access benefits you. Your story matters (2005) (0)
- 3. Coercion and Exchange (2020) (0)
- Is Homo Sociologicus Strategic (2006) (0)
- DEVELOPMENT, CULTURE, AND INSTITUTIONS † (2010) (0)
- Institutions and the Path to the Modern Economy: Institutions as Systems in Equilibria (2006) (0)
- Institutions and the Path to the Modern Economy: POLITICAL ECONOMY OF INSTITUTIONS AND DECISIONS (2006) (0)
- Institutions and the Path to the Modern Economy: Interactive, Context-Specific Analysis (2006) (0)
- Introduction. The Enlightened Economist (2020) (0)
- Genoa and the Genoese, 958–1528 . By Steven A. Epstein. 1996. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press. Pp. 396. $45.00, cloth. (1998) (0)
- 2 Institutions as Rules : Conceptual Issues (2011) (0)
- 5IF"ENJOJTUSBUJWF'PVOEBUJPOTPG4FMG&OGPSDJOH$POTUJUVUJPOT (2008) (0)
- CDDRL WORKING PAPERS A Theory of Endogenous Institutional Change (2004) (0)
- Analytic Narratives (2020) (0)
- Institutions and the Path to the Modern Economy: Institutional Dynamics as a Historical Process (2006) (0)
- Historical ( and Comparative ) Institutional Analysis : Self-enforcing and Self-reinforcing Economic Institutions (2000) (0)
- 5if"enjojtusbujwf'pvoebujpotpg4fmg&ogpsdjoh$potujuvujpot I. the Administrative Roots of Venice's Political Development (2010) (0)
- Risk Sharing and the Industrial Revolution : A Macroeconomic Approach (2007) (0)
- Medieval and Early Modern (1995) (0)
- Readings Lecture 1 : The Economic Impact of Western Penetration : the case of Protestantism (2014) (0)
- Securing Property Rights from the Grabbing Hand of the State: The Merchant Guild (2006) (0)
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