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Institutions and the path to the modern economy: lessons from medieval trade - By Avner Greif. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006. Pp. xix + 503. Hardback £53.00, ISBN: 978-0-521-48044-2 paperback £20.99, ISBN: 978-0-521-67134-7.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 February 2010

Debin Ma
Affiliation:
London School of Economics and Political Science, UK E-mail: [email protected]

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References

1 L. Boerner and A. Ritschl, ‘The economic history of sovereignty: communal responsibility, the extended family, and the firm’, Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics, 165, 1, 2009, pp. 99–112.

2 Debin Ma, ‘Law and commerce in traditional China: an institutional perspective on the “Great Divergence”’, Keizai-Shirin, 73, 4, 2006, pp. 69–96, and available at http://personal.lse.ac.uk/mad1/ma_pdf_files/keizai%20shirin%20%20MA1.pdf (consulted 10 December 2009).