Most Reprinted Works

1. "Constitutions and Commitment: The Evolution of Institutions
Governing Public Choice in 17th Century England"
(with Douglass C. North). Journal of Economic History.
(December 1989) 49: 803-32

• Reprinted in: Torsten Persson and Guido Tabellini, eds., Monetary and Fiscal Policy. (Cambridge: M.I.T. Press, 1994);
• Reprinted in Oliver E. Williamson and Scott E. Masten, eds., Transaction Cost Economics. vol. I. (Edward Elgar Publishing, 1995);
• Reprinted in Lee J. Alston, Thrainn Eggertsson, and Douglass C. North, eds., Empirical Studies in Institutional Change (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1996);
• Reprinted in Svetozar Pejovich, ed., The Economics of Property Rights. (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2001);
• Reprinted in Colin D. Scott, ed., Regulation (Aldershot, UK: Ashgate Publishing, 2003);
• Reprinted in Claude Menard, The Political Economy of Institutions vol. 6 (Edward Elgar, Publishing, 2004);
• Reprinted in Dewan, Torun, Keith Dowding and Kenneth A. Shepsle, eds., Rational Choice Politics. (London: Sage, 2009);
• Reprinted in Kevin E. Davis, ed., Institutions and Economic Performance (Edward Elgar, Publishing, forthcoming);
• Reprinted in Andreas Dahlkvist and Lars Magnusson, eds., Twentieth-Century Economic History: Critical Concepts in Economics (New York: Routledge, forthcoming);
• Reprinted in Pablo Spiller, ed., Institutional Law and Economics (Edward Elgar, Publishing, forthcoming);
• Reprinted in Howard R. Vane and Chris Mulhearn, eds., Gunnar Myrdal, Friedrich A. von Hayek, Robert W. Fogel, Douglass C. North and Amartya K. Sen (Edward Elgar, Publishing, 2011);
• Reprinted in Daniel Klerman, ed., Economics of Legal History. (Edward Elgar, Publishing, forthcoming);
• Reprinted with a new introduction, “Limited Government and Liberal Markets: An Introduction to ‘Constitutions and Commitment,’” in Paul W. Drake and Mathew D. McCubbins, eds., The Origins of Liberty: Political and Economic Liberalization in the Modern World (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1998).
• Comment by Bruce G. Carruthers, “Politics, Popery and Property: A Comment on North and Weingast,” Journal of Economic History (Sept. 1990) 50: 693-98.

 

2. "The Economic Role of Political Institutions:
Market-Preserving Federalism and Economic Development." 
Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization (Spring 1995) 11: 1-31.

• Reprinted/ translated into Spanish as “El papel económico de las instituciones políticas: el federalismo de mercado y el desarrollo económico, in Pablo Beramendi and Ramón Maíz, eds., “Federalismo y Neoinstitutionalismo,” Zona Abierta 104-105 (2003).
• Reprinted in Peter J. Boettke, ed., The Legacy of Friedrich von Hayek (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2004);
• Reprinted in Stefan Voight, Constitutional Political Economy (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2004);
• Reprinted in Claude Menard, The International Library of the New Institutional Economics (Edward Elgar, Publishing, 2005);
• Reprinted in Bruce H. Kobayashi and Larry E. Ribstein, eds., Economics of Federalism (Edward Elgar, Publishing, 2007);
• Reprinted in Nicholas Mercuro, ed., Law and Economics (Critical Concepts in Law) (Routledge Publishing, 2007);
• Reprinted in Dewan, Torun, Keith Dowding and Kenneth A. Shepsle, eds., Rational Choice Politics. (London: Sage, 2009);
• Reprinted in Richard Epstein, ed., The Economics of Constitutional Law. (Edward Elgar, Publishing, 2010);
• Reprinted in Pablo T. Spiller, ed., Institutional Law and Economics. (Edward Elgar, Publishing, forthcoming);
• Reprinted in John Kincaid, ed., Federalism. (SAGE Publications, forthcoming  2010);
• Reprinted in Peter J. Boettk and Peter T. Leeson, eds., The Economic Role of the State (Edward Elgar, Publishing, forthcoming).

 

3. "The Industrial Organization of Congress; or Why Legislatures,
Like Firms, Are Not Organized as Market" (with William J. Marshall). 
Journal of Political Economy 96 (February 1988): 132-63.

• Reprinted in Charles K. Rowley, ed., Public Choice Theory. Vol II. (Edward Elgar, Publishing, 1993).
• Reprinted in Oliver E. Williamson and Scott E. Masten, Transaction Cost Economics. vol. I. (Edward Elgar, Publishing, 1995).
• Reprinted in Dennis C. Mueller, The Economics of Politics.  (Edward Elgar, Publishing, 2001).
• Reprinted in Claude Menard, The International Library of the New Institutional Economics vol. 6 (Edward Elgar, Publishing, 2004).
• Reprinted in Dewan, Torun, Keith Dowding and Kenneth A. Shepsle, eds., Rational Choice Politics. (London: Sage, forthcoming 2009).
• Translated into Spanish in Sebastian M. Saiegh and Mariano Tommasi, eds. La Nueva Economia Politica: Racionalidad e Instituciones. Buenos Aires, EUDEBA, 1998;
• Translated into Chinese: Ma Jun, Bin, Xiao and Yaping, Liu., eds., Selected Collection of Transactions Cost Politics (Beijing: Chinese RenMin University Press, forthcoming 2008).
• Reprinted in Pablo T. Spiller, Institutional Law and Economics. (Edward Elgar Publishing, forthcoming.)

 

4. 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).
Paperback version published 2012.

• 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;
• Translated into Chinese, Chapter 5, “The Transition from Limited to Open Access Orders,” Marxism & Reality, 2011, #2.
• 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).

 

5. "The Role of Institutions in the Revival of Trade:
The Medieval Law Merchant, Private Judges, and the
Champagne Fairs" (with Paul R. Milgrom and Douglass C. North). 
Economics and Politics (March 1990) 2: 1-23.

• Reprinted in Douglas Irwin, ed., Trade in the Pre-Modern Period: 1400-1700. (Edward Elgar, 1996);
• Reprinted in Daniel Klein, ed., Reputation: Studies in the Voluntary Elicitation of Good Conduct. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press (1997);
• Reprinted in Claude Menard, The Political Economy of Institutions vol. 6 (Edward Elgar, Publishing, 2004);
• Reprinted in Lisa Martin, International Institutions in the New Global Economy (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2005);
• Reprinted in Edward Stringham, Anarchy and the Law (New Brunswick, New Jersey: Transaction Publishers, forthcoming 2006);
• Reprinted in Eric A. Posner, Social Norms, Nonlegal Sanctions, and the Law (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2007.)

 

6. "Bureaucratic Discretion or Congressional Control:
Regulatory Policymaking by the FTC" (with Mark J. Moran). 
Journal of Political Economy 91 (October 1983), pp. 765-800.

• Reprinted in: Robert Mackay, James C. Miller, and Bruce Yandle (eds.), Public Choice and Regulation: A View from Inside the Federal Trade Commission. (Stanford: Hoover Institution, 1987), Ch. 3.
• Reprinted in Charles K. Rowley, ed., Public Choice Theory. Vol. III. (Edward Elgar Publishing, 1993).
• Reprinted in Robert B. Ekelund, Jr., The Foundations of Regulatory Economics. (Edward Elgar Publishing, 1999).
• Reprinted in part in: Walter Gellhorn, Administrative Law 8th ed. (West Publishing Co.); Gellhorn and Byse, Administrative Law 9th ed. (Foundation Press);
• Reprinted in Thomas P. Lyon, Regulation (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2007).
• Reprinted in Pablo T. Spiller, Institutional Law and Economics. (Edward Elgar Publishing, forthcoming.)
• Comment by Timothy J. Muris, “Regulatory Policymaking at the Federal Trade Commission: The Extent of Congressional Control.” Journal of Political Economy 94 (1986): pp. 884-89.
• Reply, “Congress and Regulatory Agency Choice,” Journal of Political Economy 94 (1986), pp. 890-4.

 

7. "Commitment, Coordination, and Enforcement:
The Case of the Merchant Guilds" (with Avner Greif and Paul Milgrom). 
Journal of Political Economy (1994) 102: 745-76.

• Reprinted in Jack Knight and Itai Sened, eds. Explaining Social Institutions. (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press (1995);
• Reprinted in Elias L Khalil, ed., Trust (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2003);
• Reprinted in Claude Menard, The International Library of the New Institutional Economics vol 3. (Edward Elgar, Publishing, 2004);
• Reprinted in Eric A. Posner, Social Norms, Nonlegal Sanctions, and the Law (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2007);
• Reprinted in Dewan, Torun, Keith Dowding and Kenneth A. Shepsle, eds., Rational Choice Politics. (London: Sage, 2009);
• Reprinted in Lisa Bernstein and Francesco Parisi, eds., Customary Law. (Edward Elgar Publishing, forthcoming.)
• Reprinted in Pablo T. Spiller, Institutional Law and Economics. (Edward Elgar Publishing, forthcoming.)

 

8. "Administrative Procedures as Instruments of Political Control"
(with Mathew D. McCubbins and Roger G. Noll). Journal of Law,
Economics, and Organization 3 (Fall 1987): 243-77.

• Reprinted in part in Arthur Earl Bonfield and Michael Asimow, Federal and State Administrative Law (West Publishing Co., 1989), pp. 16-18 and 531-35;
• Reprinted in Paul L. Joskow, ed., Economic Regulation (Edward Elgar, Publishing, 2000);
• Reprinted in Cary Coglianese and Robert Kagan, eds., Regulation and Regulatory Processes (Aldershot, UK: Ashgate Publishing, 2007).
• Reprinted in Susan Rose-Ackerman, ed., The Economics of Administrative Law (Edward Elgar, Publishing, forthcoming).
• Reprinted in Dewan, Torun, Keith Dowding and Kenneth A. Shepsle, eds., Rational Choice Politics. (London: Sage, 2009).
• Reprinted in Samuel Kernell and Steven S Smith, eds., Principles and Practice of American Politics: Classic and Contemporary Readings, 5th Edition. Washington, D.C.: CQ Press, 2012.
• Reprinted in Pablo Spiller, ed., Institutional Law and Economics (Edward Elgar Publishing, forthcoming).

 

9. "Constitutions as Governance Structures: The Political
Foundations of Secure Markets." Journal of Institutional and
Theoretical Economics. (1993) 149: 286-311.

• Reprinted in Stefan Voight, ed., Constitutional Political Economy (Edward Elgar Publishing, forthcoming.)
• Reprinted in Claude Menard, The Political Economy of Institutions vol. 6 (Edward Elgar, Publishing, 2004);
• Translated into Chinese: Ma Jun, Bin, Xiao and Yaping, Liu., eds., Selected Collection of Transactions Cost Politics (Beijing: Chinese RenMin University Press, forthcoming 2008);
• Reprinted in Rudolf Ritcher and Eric Furubotn, eds., The New Institutional Economics of Markets. (Edward Elgar Publishing, forthcoming.)
• Comment by Peter Bernholz, Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics. (1993) 149: 312-20.

 

10. "Positive Canons: The Role of Legislative Bargains
in Statutory Interpretation" Published under “McNollgast”
(With Mathew D. McCubbins and Roger Noll). Georgetown Law Review 
(1992) 80: 705-42.

• Reprinted in Singer, Norman J., ed., Sutherland Statutory Construction. 5th ed. (Deerfield, Illinois: Clark-Boardman-Callaghan. 1992) Volume 3A, pp. 739-762.
• Reprinted in Singer, Norman J., ed., Sutherland on Contracts and Statutory Construction. 6th ed. (St. Paul, MN: West Group, 2000).
• Reprinted in Sutherland on Contracts and Statutory Construction. 7th ed. (St. Paul, MN: West Group, forthcoming).

 

11. "The Institutional Foundations Of Committee Power."
(with Kenneth A. Shepsle). American Political Science
Review 81 (March 1987), pp. 85-194.

• Reprinted in Charles K. Rowley, ed., Public Choice Theory. Vol. II. (Edward Elgar, Publishing, 1993);
• Reprinted in Philip Norton, ed., Legislature and Legislators. (Ashgate Publishing, 1998);
• Reprinted inS teven S. Smith, Jason M. Roberts, and Ryan J. Vander Wielen, eds., The American Congress Reader (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2008).
• Comment by Keith Krehbiel,  “Controversies,” American Political Science Review 81 (September 1987), pp 929-35.
• Reply: “Reflections on Committee Power” (with Kenneth A. Shepsle), “Controversies,” American Political Science Review81 (September 1987), pp. 935-45.

 

*Includes reprints, translations, new introductions and afterwards, excerptions, etc.