UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND

Papers on England in the Sixteenth to Eighteenth Century

A Macroscope of English Print Culture, 1530-1700, Applied to the Coevolution of Ideas on Religion, Science, and Institutions.
Data.
Peter Grajzl and Peter Murrell
2024. Social Science History, forthcoming.

Combining Machine Learning and Econometrics to Examine the Historical Roots of Institutions and Cultures
Peter Grajzl and Peter Murrell
2024. forthcoming in Handbook of New Institutional Economics, edited by Claude Ménard and Mary M. Shirley, Springer.

Did Caselaw Foster England's Economic Development During the Industrial Revolution? Data and Evidence.
Final Pre-Publication Version. Data.
Peter Grajzl and Peter Murrell
2024. Journal of Comparative Economics, 52(1), 145-165.

Quiet Revolutions in Early-Modern England
Final Pre-Publication Version.
Peter Grajzl and Peter Murrell
2024. Public Choice, forthcoming.

Of Families and Inheritance: Law and Development in England Before the Industrial Revolution
Final Pre-Publication Version.
Peter Grajzl and Peter Murrell
2023. Cliometrica, Volume 17, 387–432.

A Macrohistory of Legal Evolution and Coevolution: Property, Procedure, and Contract in Pre-Industrial English Caselaw
Final Pre-Publication Version.
Peter Grajzl and Peter Murrell
2023. International Review of Law & Economics, 73(March), Article 106113.

Using Topic-Modeling in Legal History, with an Application to Pre-Industrial English Caselaw on Finance
Final Pre-Publication Version.
Peter Grajzl and Peter Murrell
2022. Law and History Review, 40(2), 189-228.

Lasting Legal Legacies: Early English Legal Ideas and Later Caselaw Development During the Industrial Revolution
Final Pre-Publication Version.
Peter Grajzl and Peter Murrell
2022. Review of Law & Economics, 18(1), 85-141.

Did the Independence of Judges Reduce Legal Development in England, 1600-1800?
PublishedVersion. Supplementary Material. Data and Replication Materials.
Peter Murrell
2021. The Journal of Law and Economics, 64(3), 539–565.

A machine-learning history of English caselaw and legal ideas prior to the Industrial Revolution II: applications
Final Pre-Publication Version. Data.
Peter Grajzl and Peter Murrell
2021. Journal of Institutional Economics, 17(2), 201-216.

A machine-learning history of English caselaw and legal ideas prior to the Industrial Revolution I: generating and interpreting the estimates
Final Pre-Publication Version. Supplementary Material. Data.
Peter Grajzl and Peter Murrell
2021. Journal of Institutional Economics, 17(1): 1-19.

Characterizing a legal-intellectual culture: Bacon, Coke, and seventeenth-century England
Final Pre-Publication Version. Data.
Peter Grajzl and Peter Murrell
2021. Cliometrica, 15(1), 43 - 88.

Toward Understanding 17th Century English Culture: A Structural Topic Model of Francis Bacon's Ideas
Supplementary Content.
Peter Grajzl and Peter Murrell
2019. Journal of Comparative Economics, 47, 111-135.

Design and Evolution in Institutional Development: The Insignificance of the English Bill of Rights
Supplementary Content.
Peter Murrell
2017. Journal of Comparative Economics, 45(1) February: 36-55.
Winner of the Montias Prize awarded by The Association for Comparative Economic Studies for the best article published in the Journal of Comparative Economics during a two-year period (2016-2017).

A Darwinian Theory of Institutional Development Two Centuries Before Darwin
Peter Grajzl and Peter Murrell
2016. Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 131(A) November 2016: 346-372.

The Coevolution of Culture and Institutions in Seventeenth Century England.
2011.
Peter Murrell and Martin Schmidt