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1 Family Structure, Institutions, and Growth: The Origins and Implications of Western Corporations Avner Greif Stanford University 2006 Forthcoming American Economic Review, May 2006. There is a vast amount of literature that considers the importance of the family as an institution. Little attention, however, has been given to the impact of family structures on institutions and their dynamics. This limits our ability to understand distinct institutional developments – and hence growth – in the past and the present. This paper supports this argument by highlighting the importance of the European family structure in one of the most fundamental institutional changes in history and reflecting on its growth-related implications. What constituted this change was the emergence of the economic and political corporations in late medieval Europe. ‘Corporations’ are defined here, consistent with their historical meaning, as intentionally created, voluntary, interest-based, and self-governed permanent associations. Guilds, fraternities, universities, communes and city-states are some of the corporations that have dominated Europe in the past; businesses and professional associations, business corporations, universities, consumer groups, counties, republics and democracies are examples of corporations in modern societies. The provision of corporation-based institutions to mitigate problems of cooperation and conflict constituted a break from the ways in which institutions had been provided in the past. Historically, large kinship groups, such as clans, lineages and tribes, often secured the lives and property of their members and provided them with social safety nets. Institutions were also often provided by states, governed by customary or authoritarian rulers and by religious authorities. Private-order, usually undesigned, institutions prevailed as well. Corporation-based institutions can substitute for institutions provided in these ways. When they substitute for kinship groups and provide social safety nets, corporations complement

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