Trade, Self-Governance,and the Provision of Law and Order, with an Application To Medieval English Chartered Towns
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Keywords
Institutions; Law Enforcement; Trade; Delegation; Taxation; Bureaucracy;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- D02 - Microeconomics - - General - - - Institutions: Design, Formation, Operations, and Impact
- D23 - Microeconomics - - Production and Organizations - - - Organizational Behavior; Transaction Costs; Property Rights
- D73 - Microeconomics - - Analysis of Collective Decision-Making - - - Bureaucracy; Administrative Processes in Public Organizations; Corruption
- P14 - Political Economy and Comparative Economic Systems - - Capitalist Economies - - - Property Rights
- P16 - Political Economy and Comparative Economic Systems - - Capitalist Economies - - - Capitalist Institutions; Welfare State
NEP fields
This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-HIS-2014-01-17 (Business, Economic and Financial History)
- NEP-INT-2014-01-17 (International Trade)
- NEP-LAW-2014-01-17 (Law and Economics)
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