The Craft Guilds of Tunis and their Amins: A Study in Institutional Atrophy* *The bulk of the research embodied in this paper was carried out during visits to Tunis in 1983, 1984, and 1986. In the course of my visits I benefited from discussions with Mohamed Talbi, Taoufik Bachrouch, and Ahmed Boubaker, and my field work was facilitated by Mohamed Matoussi, Jamel Chichti, Mongi Azabou, and Mustapha Nabli. Both Reuven Brenner and Jeffrey Nugent read the first draft of the paper and made valuable suggestions

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“Institutions and Economic Performance: The Use and Abuse of Culture in New Institutional Economics”: A Response to Heydemann

Nugent

2008

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Applications of institutional analysis to the explanation of economic performance come in many flavors. Some economists have made use of an economics-oriented flavor in treating culture as one component of that analysis. Steven Heydemann uses a more political flavor of institutional analysis to argue that two of these economists, Douglass North and Avner Greif, have overly simplified and homogenized the concept of culture and the way in which it affects economic performance. He goes on to identify several instances in both the economic history and contemporary experience of the Middle East where he claims that such oversimplification has led to shortcomings in the analysis. This paper suggests that while some of Heydemann's claims have merit, several others are exaggerated.

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