On Business History

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Guinnane, Timothy and Susana Martinez Rodriguez, “For Every Law, a Loophole: Flexibility in the Menu of Spanish Business Forms, 1886-1936,” Yale Economics Department Working Paper No. 103, 2012.

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Kuran, Timur. “The Absence of Corporation in Islamic Law: Origins and Persistence,” American Journal of Comparative Law 53 (2005), 785-834.

Naomi R. Lamoreaux and Jean-Laurent Rosenthal, “Legal Regime and Contractual Flexibility: A Comparison of Business‟s Organizational Choices in France and the United States during the Era of Industrialization,” American Law and Economics Review 7 (2005): 28-61.

Lamoreaux, Naomi R.; Raff, Daniel M. G.; and Temin, Peter. "Beyond Markets and Hierarchies: Toward a New Synthesis of American Business History." American Historical Review 108 (2003): 404-433.

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Tilly, Richard. “On the Development of German Banks as Universal Banks in the 19th and 20th Centuries: Engine of Growth or Power Block?” German Yearbook on Business History, (1993): 109-30.

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