Avner Greif

Curriculum Vitae

Bowman Family Professor in the Humanities and Sciences
Department of Economics
Stanford University

Fellow Canadian Institute for Advanced Research
Fellow American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Fellow Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies

Books

2006. Institutions and the Path to the Modern Economy: Lessons from Medieval Trade. Cambridge University Press. (Book introduction)
1998. Analytic Narratives. Princeton University Press. (With R. Bates, M. Levi, JL. Rosenthal and B. Weingast.)

Selected Papers

2013. "Social Organizations, Violence, and Modern Growth. (With Murat Iygun.) American Economic Review (Papers & Proceedings). Vol. 103(3): 534-38.

2012. "Coercion and Exchange. How did Markets Evolve?" Forthcoming in Essays in Economic History and Development, Edited by A. Greif, Lynne Kiesling, and John Nye.

2011. "Institutions: Rules or Equilibria? (with Chris Kingston). In Political Economy of Institutions, Democracy and Voting, Edited by Gonzalo Caballero and Norman Schofield. Springer, Pp. 13-44.

2010. "A Theory of Moral Persistence: Crypto-morality and Political Legitimacy. (With S. Tadelis.) Journal of Comperative Economics.

2010. "Cultural and Institutional Bifurcation: China and Europe Compared." (With G. Tabellini.) American Economic Review (Papers and Proceedings), Vol. 100(2), pp. 135-40.

2008. "The Adminstrative Foundations of Self-enforcing Constitutions." (With Yadira González de Lara and Saumitra Jha). American Economic Review

2007. "The Impact of Administrative Power on Political and Economic Developments." In Elhanan Helpman (ed.), Institutions and Growth.

2006. " Family Structure, Institutions, and Growth." American Economic Review.

2006. "The Birth of Impersonal Exchange." JEP.

2005. "Commitment, Coercion and Markets: The Nature and Dynamics of Institutions Supporting Exchange. " In the Handbook Of New Institutional Economics, edited by C. Ménard and M. M. Shirley, (New York, 2005), pp. 727-88.

2004. "A Theory of Endogenous Institutional Change." (With D. Laitin). APSR.

2002. "Organizing Violence: Wealth, Power, and Limited Government" (With R. Bates and S. Singh.) The Journal of Conflict Resolution, 46(5, Oct.): 599-628.

2000. "The Fundamental Problem of Exchange. Review of European Economic History, 4 (2000), pp. 251-84."

1998. "Historical and Comparative Institutional Analysis." "American Economic Review, (2, May): 80-4.

1994. "Cultural Beliefs and the Organization of Society: A Historical and Theoretical Reflection on Collectivist and Individual Societies. " Journal of Political Economy, 102 (1994), pp. 912-50.

1994. "Coordination, Commitment and Enforcement: The Case of the Merchant Guild. (With P. Milgrom and B. Weingast)." JPE.

1993. "Contract Enforceability and Economic Institutions in Early Trade: The Maghribi Traders' Coalition." American Economic Review, Vol. 83(3): 525-48

1992. "Institutions and International Trade: Lessons from the Commercial Revolution." American Economic Review.

1989. "Reputation and Coalitions in Medieval Trade: Evidence on the Maghribi Traders.." Journal of Economic History, XLIX, pp. 857-82.

Debate with J. Edwards and S. Ogilvie: The Maghribis, Culture, and Institutions

Teaching

Contact Information

Department of Economics
Stanford University
Stanford, CA 94305-6072

Rita Lonhart
Phone: (650) 721-5572
Fax: (650) 725-5702
rlonhart@stanford.edu

Avner Greif
Phone: (650) 725-8936
Fax: (650) 725-5702
Email: avner@stanford.edu
Web: http://www.stanford.edu/~avner