Applying North's laws of motion to the edge of the west

Economic Affairs

Volumn 29, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 4-9

  Azmat, Saad ^a  

^a LAHORE UNIVERSITY OF MANAGEMENT SCIENCES   (Pakistan)

Author keywords

Douglass North; Institutional economics; Market economy; Muslim Spain

Indexed keywords

EID: 66949146545     PISSN: 02650665     EISSN: 14680270     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-0270.2009.01886.x     Document Type: Article

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