Books & Edited Collections

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• Violence and Social Orders: A Conceptual Framework For Interpreting Recorded Human History (with Douglass C. North and John Joseph Wallis). (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2009).
  • Translated into French (Paris: Editions Gallimard, 2010.
  • Translated into Russian (Institute for the Economy in Transition, 2011)
  • Translated into German (Mohr Siebeck Verlag, 2011)
  • Translated into Italian (Bologna, Italy: Societa Editrice Il Mulino SpA, 2012)
  • Translated into Chinese (Singapore: Cambridge: Cambridge University Press of Singapore, forthcoming)
  • Translated in Japanese (Tokyo: NTT Publishing, forthcoming)
  • Translated into Arabic (National Center for Translation, forthcoming)
  • Translated into Chinese, Chapter 5, “The Transition from Limited to Open Access Orders,” Marxism & Reality, 2011, #2.
     
• Analytic Narratives (with Robert H. Bates, Avner Greif, Margaret Levi, and Jean-Laurent Rosenthal).  Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1998.
   
• Preferences and Situations: Points of Contact between Historical and Rational Choice Institutionalisms (editor, with Ira Katznelson). (New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 2005
   
• Oxford Handbook of Political Economy (editor, with Donald Wittman) (New York: Oxford University Press, August 2006)
   
• Korean Political and Economic Development: Crisis, Security, and Institutional Rebalancing (with Jongryn Mo). (Cambridge: Harvard University Asia Center, 2013)

• Positive Theories of Congressional Institutions (edited, with Kenneth A. Shepsle). Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press. 1995. Originally published as a special issue of Legislative Studies Quarterly 19 (May 1994).
   
• The New Federalism: Can the States Be Trusted? (editor, with John A. Ferejohn). Stanford: Hoover Institution Press (1997).
   
• Political Institutions and Financial Development (edited with Douglass C. North and Stephen Haber). Stanford, California: Stanford University Press, 2008
   
• Symposium on: Institutions, Economics, and the Ancient Mediterranean World (editor, with Ian Morris), Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics Vol 160, No 4. (2004): 702-85.
   
• Symposium on: The Law and Economics of Constitutions and Public Law, (editor, with Robert Cooter), special issue of International Review of Law and Economics 12 (June, 1992).