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Law and Long-Term Economic Change : A Eurasian Perspective /

Recently, a growing body of work on "law and finance" and "legal origins" has highlighted the role of formal legal institutions in shaping financial institutions. However, these writings have focused largely on Europe, neglecting important non-Western traditions that prevail in a...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Ma, Debin (Editor ), van Zanden, Jan Luiten (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Stanford, CA : Stanford University Press, [2020]
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • List of Figures
  • List of Tables
  • Contributors
  • 1. Law and Long- Term Economic Change: An Editorial Introduction
  • 2. The Evolution of Law: Political Foundations of Private Law in Medieval Europe and Japan
  • 3. Law and Economy in Traditional China: A "Legal Origin" Perspective on the Great Divergence
  • 4. Property Rights, Land, and Law in Imperial China
  • 5. Contracts, Property, and Litigation: Intermediation and Adjudication in the Huizhou Region (Anhui) in Sixteenth- Century China
  • 6. Law and Economic Change in India, 1600- 1900
  • 7. Land and Law in Colonial India
  • 8. The Political Economy of Law and Economic Development in Islamic History
  • 9. Islamic Legal Institutions of Contracts and Courts: A Comparative Perspective
  • 10. Bankruptcy Laws: East versus West
  • 11. Debt Litigation in Medieval Holland, 1200- 1350
  • 12. The Resolution of Commercial Conflicts in Bruges, Antwerp, and Amsterdam (1250- 1650)
  • 13. The Portuguese Judicial System in the Nineteenth Century: Rules, Risks, and Judges
  • 14. The Evolution of Self- and State Regulation of the London Stock Exchange, 1688- 1878
  • 15. British Legal Institutions and Transaction Costs in the Early Transport Revolution
  • Index