Avner Greif

Curriculum Vitae

Bowman Family Professor in the Humanities and Sciences
Department of Economics
Stanford University

Fellow Canadian Institute for Advanced Research
Fellow American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Fellow Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies

Books

2006. Institutions and the Path to the Modern Economy: Lessons from Medieval Trade. Cambridge University Press. (Book introduction)
1998. Analytic Narratives. Princeton University Press. (With R. Bates, M. Levi, JL. Rosenthal and B. Weingast.)

Selected Papers

2008. "The Adminstrative Foundations of Self-enforcing Constitutions." (With Yadira Gonz�lez de Lara and Saumitra Jha). American Economic Review

2005. "Commitment, Coercion and Markets: The Nature and Dynamics of Institutions Supporting Exchange. " In the Handbook Of New Institutional Economics, edited by C. M�nard and M. M. Shirley, (New York, 2005), pp. 727-88.

2002. "Organizing Violence: Wealth, Power, and Limited Government" (With R. Bates and S. Singh.) The Journal of Conflict Resolution, 46(5, Oct.): 599-628.

Debate with J. Edwards and S. Ogilvie: The Maghribis, Culture, and Institutions

Teaching

Contact Information

Department of Economics
Stanford University
Stanford, CA 94305-6072

Rita Lonhart
Phone: (650) 721-5572
Fax: (650) 725-5702
[email protected]

Avner Greif
Phone: (650) 725-8936
Fax: (650) 725-5702
Email: [email protected]
Web: https://www.stanford.edu/~avner