Introduction / Douglass C. North and Barry R. Weingast -- Constitutions and commitment : the evolution of institutions governing public choice in seventeenth-century England / Harold Demsetz -- The allocation of property rights to land : US land policy and farm failure in the northern great plains / Zeynep K. Hansen and Gary D. Libecap -- The political economy of the Securities Act of 1933 / Paul G. Mahoney -- Jurisdictional competition and the evolution of the common law / Daniel Klerman -- Determining the impact of federal antidiscrimination policy on the economic status of blacks : a study of South Carolina / James J. Heckman and Brook S. Payner -- Did women's suffrage change the size and scope of the government? / John R. Lott, Jr. and Lawrence W. Kenny -- Women's suffrage, political responsiveness, and child survival in American history / Grant Miller -- Constitutions and commitment : the evolution of institutions governing public choice in seventeenth-century England / Douglass C. North and Barry R. Weingast -- Order without law? : Property rights during the California gold rush / Karen Clay and Gavin Wright -- The value of judicial independence : evidence from eighteenth century England / Daniel M. Klerman and Paul G. Mahoney -- Did the Glorious Revolution contribute to the transport revolution? : Evidence from investment in roads and rivers / Dan Bogart -- A theory of endogenous institutional change / Avner Greif and David D. Laitin -- History lessons : the birth of impersonal exchange : the community responsibility system and impartial justice / Avner Greif -- Creating and American property law : alienability and its limits in American history / Claire Priest -- A hypothesis of wealth-maximalizing norms : evidence from the whaling industry / Robert C. Ellickson -- Order without law? : Property rights during the California gold rush / Karen Clay and Gavin Wright -- Critical legal histories / Robert W. Gordon. Currency policies and legal development in colonial New England / Claire Priest -- The selection of 13th-century disputes for litigation / Daniel Klerman -- The market for children : evidence from early modern Japan / J. Mark Ramseyer -- Critical legal histories / Robert W. Gordon.
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Economic approaches to law ; 45 An Elgar research collection
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