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Hawala in Criminal Court: the Role of Law and Commercial Culture in Informal Financial Exchange (2024)
Journal Article
Ercanbrack, J. G. (2024). Hawala in Criminal Court: the Role of Law and Commercial Culture in Informal Financial Exchange. Crime, Law and Social Change, 82(3), 659-683. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10611-024-10162-w

A historically informed understanding of ḥawāla and other varieties of informal value transfer systems (IVTS) requires consideration of the normative and cultural elements which structure and facilitate transactions in globalized financial markets. T... Read More about Hawala in Criminal Court: the Role of Law and Commercial Culture in Informal Financial Exchange.

Resolving Douglass C. North’s ‘puzzle’ concerning China’s household responsibility system (2021)
Journal Article
Deakin, S., & Meng, G. (2022). Resolving Douglass C. North’s ‘puzzle’ concerning China’s household responsibility system. Journal of Institutional Economics, 18(4), 521-535. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1744137421000746

This paper considers Douglass C. North's ‘puzzle’ concerning China's household responsibility system (HRS) and offers a possible solution. China's HRS, which has evolved over the past four decades to become its dominant form of rural land ownership,... Read More about Resolving Douglass C. North’s ‘puzzle’ concerning China’s household responsibility system.