Law and long-term economic change
Subtitle: a Eurasian perspective
By: edited by Debin Ma and Jan Luiten van Zanden
Publisher: Stanford Economics and Finance
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Stanford, California
Language: eng
Number of pages: 358
ISBN-13: 9780804772730
Copyright date: 2011
Subjects: Law; Law and economic development; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Law and long-term economic change : an editorial introduction / Debin Ma and Jan Luiten van Zanden; title: The evolution of law : political foundations of private law in medieval Europe and Japan / John O. Haley; title: Law and economy in traditional China : a "legal origin" perspective on the great divergence / Debin Ma; title: Property rights, land, and law in imperial China / Mio Kishimoto; title: Contracts, property, and litigation : intermediation and adjudication in the Huizhou Region (Anhui) in sixteenth-century China / Harriet T. Zurndorfer; title: Law and economic change in India : 1600-1900 / Tirthankar Roy; title: Land and law in colonial India / Anand V. Swamy; title: The political economy of law and economic development in Islamic history / Metin M. Coşgel; title: Islamic legal institutions of contracts and courts : a comparative perspective / Miura Toru; title: Bankruptcy laws : East versus West / Jérôme Sgard; title: Debt litigation in medieval Holland, 1200-1350 / Jessica Dijkman; title: The resolution of commercial conflicts in Bruges, Antwerp, and Amsterdam (1250-1650) / Oscar Gelderblom; title: The Portuguese judicial system in the nineteenth century : rules, risks, and judges / Jaime Reis; title: The evolution of self and state regulation of the London Stock Exchange, 1688-1878 / Larry Neal; title: British legal institutions and transaction costs in the early transport revolution / Dan Bogart.