Josiah Ober (Stanford) was awarded the Douglass C. North Research Award for "The Rise and Fall of Classical Greece" (Princeton University Press, 2015).
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SIOE/ISNIE 20th Anniversary
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by Peter Klein
Twenty years ago (19-21 September 1997), an incredible group of scholars gathered at Washington University, St. Louis for the inaugural conference of the...
Daron Acemoglu's Treasure
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By Jens Prüfer
Here is the link to a treasure: Daron Acemoglu (MIT), currently one of the most successful and influential economists studying institutions, put all his lecture...
SIOE 2018 conference: date and venue
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For your planning, the next SIOE conference will take place in Montréal, Canada, from June 21-23, 2018. A program committee chaired by President-Elect Francine Lafontaine (...
Hadfield's Rules for a Flat World
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Gillian Hadfield recently published an important new book, Rules for a Flat World: Why Humans Invented Law and How to Reinvent It for a Complex Global Economy, which is of interest to the...
How to pronounce "SIOE"?
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By Henry E. Smith
Many have asked how the new acronym for our society should be pronounced, and there seems to be some variation in practice so far. Although as a linguist I am...
New Work from Landa and Richman on Relational Contracts
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Relational contracting is a perennial theme at SIOE's annual meeting, and 2017 was no different. A number of presentations (see, e.g., Greg Buchak's interesting paper on online...
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