Greif Responds to Edwards and Ogilvie

| Peter Klein | I blogged earlier on Jeremy Edwards and Sheilagh Ogilvie’s provocative claim that Avner Greif misread the Geniza documents in constructing his influential account of the emergence of long-distance trade. Edwards and Ogilvie claim that formal law, not norms and custom, governed the behavior of the Maghribi traders. Greif has prepared a formal response, now available … Continue reading Greif Responds to Edwards and Ogilvie