Today, many economists want a better understanding of the impact of economic institutions on the economic processes. It therefore pays to know how economic institutions evolve, particularly in case the evolution is a spontaneous one. Besides building models on rational decision making it appears worthwhile to study how an 'organic' institutional evolution operates in the real world. The conditions for such a study were provided by medieval Frisia, a country without a central government during most of the time in nine centuries and yet one of the most prosperous and earliest monetised areas of its time. The evolution of its money of account system could be seen as the evolution of an economic institution that was almost entirely the unintend...
This paper combines several important arguments, which have puzzled economic theory for decades, to ...
It is the contention of this paper that the instrumental-functional approach which most scholars tak...
This chapter discusses the evolution of non-cash payment mechanisms in the course of the development...
Today, many economists want a better understanding of the impact of economic institutions on the eco...
Boffa Serge. Hentra (υ. J.). The Evolution of the Money Standard in Medieval Frisia, A treatise on t...
Boffa Serge. Hentra (υ. J.). The Evolution of the Money Standard in Medieval Frisia, A treatise on t...
This paper examines the questions of whether and how feudal rulers were able to credibly commit to p...
This paper examines the questions of whether and how feudal rulers were able to credibly commit to p...
This paper examines the questions of whether and how feudal rulers were able to credibly commit to p...
This is the final version of the following article, which has been published in final form at http:...
The monetary history of the Low-countries in the Burgundian times is still ill-known. This article r...
This paper examines the questions of whether and how feudal rulers were able to credibly commit to p...
This paper employs a new method and dataset to estimate the effect of currency unions on the integra...
It is the contention of this paper that the instrumental-functional approach which most scholars tak...
It is the contention of this paper that the instrumental-functional approach which most scholars tak...
This paper combines several important arguments, which have puzzled economic theory for decades, to ...
It is the contention of this paper that the instrumental-functional approach which most scholars tak...
This chapter discusses the evolution of non-cash payment mechanisms in the course of the development...
Today, many economists want a better understanding of the impact of economic institutions on the eco...
Boffa Serge. Hentra (υ. J.). The Evolution of the Money Standard in Medieval Frisia, A treatise on t...
Boffa Serge. Hentra (υ. J.). The Evolution of the Money Standard in Medieval Frisia, A treatise on t...
This paper examines the questions of whether and how feudal rulers were able to credibly commit to p...
This paper examines the questions of whether and how feudal rulers were able to credibly commit to p...
This paper examines the questions of whether and how feudal rulers were able to credibly commit to p...
This is the final version of the following article, which has been published in final form at http:...
The monetary history of the Low-countries in the Burgundian times is still ill-known. This article r...
This paper examines the questions of whether and how feudal rulers were able to credibly commit to p...
This paper employs a new method and dataset to estimate the effect of currency unions on the integra...
It is the contention of this paper that the instrumental-functional approach which most scholars tak...
It is the contention of this paper that the instrumental-functional approach which most scholars tak...
This paper combines several important arguments, which have puzzled economic theory for decades, to ...
It is the contention of this paper that the instrumental-functional approach which most scholars tak...
This chapter discusses the evolution of non-cash payment mechanisms in the course of the development...