The Invisible Hand? offers a radical departure from the conventional wisdom of economists
and economic historians, by showing that'factor markets' and the economies dominated by …

It is often assumed that the market economy and the open society reinforce each other and
have risen together. Even those who are more skeptical about their long-run compatibility …

A main instrument for better understanding the formation of institutions, and explaining the
differences in their long-run development between periods and societies, would be to use …

This article contributes to the ongoing debate on the causes of the great divergence by
comparing the use of expensive labour‐saving capital goods—water‐mills, windmills, and …

This article shows that the management of water resources in Late Sasanian and Early
Islamic Iraq (sixth to tenth centuries ad) implied the participation of local communities and …

The advances in economic and social history over the past years enabled me to empirically
test assumptions about the long-run development of markets. The review by Geoff Hodgson …

Economic historians describe the emergence of Jewish court bankers presiding over a
central state bank in Abbasid Baghdad as significant for the global history of finance. This …

This paper will reflect on how Pahlavi texts after the Islamic conquest conceptualize conflicts
between Islamic norms and Zoroastrian rules, in particular those concerning purity. The …

Traditional narratives of language change in the early Islamic period struggle to account
systematically for the overwhelming quantity and variety of multilingual evidence provided …

Jairus Banaji's A Brief History of Commercial Capitalism is a welcome and much-awaited
contribution to the renewed debate on the origins, present, and future of capitalism1. The …