Herrmann-Pillath, Carsten; Guo, Man - In: Man and the Economy 4 (2017) 1
Abstract This paper introduces the concept of ‘ritual’ for analysing the interaction between informal and formal … institutions, taking land property rights in South China as an empirical case. By ritual, we refer to public actions that involve … artefacts and create common knowledge about behavioural patterns in a population. This theoretical notion of ritual (suggested …