UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND

Papers on England in the Sixteenth to Eighteenth Century

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

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