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- Publications
- Influence
The Informal Economy: Studies in Advanced and Less Developed Countries.
- C. J. Bourg, A. Portes, M. Castells, L. Benton
- Economics
- 1990
The Informal Economy: Studies in Advanced and Less Developed Countries.
- M. Todaro, A. Portes, M. Castells, L. Benton
- Economics
- 1 September 1990
Invisible Factories: The Informal Economy and Industrial Development in Spain
- L. Benton
- Political Science
- 5 July 1990
Invisible Factories The Informal Economy Invisible Factories analyzes the role of the informal economy in national development and weighs alternative claims about its impact on industrial… Expand
Made in Italy: Small‐Scale Industrialization and its Consequences
- L. Benton
- Economics
- 1 June 1993
Made in Italy: Small-Scale Industrialization and its Consequences. Michael L. Blim. New York:Praeger, 1990.
Legal Spaces of Empire: Piracy and the Origins of Ocean Regionalism
- L. Benton
- History
- 1 October 2005
In his geographical treatise of 1537, the Portuguese chronicler D. Joao de Castra explained that it would be possible to correlate all newly discovered lands with astronomical markers to produce an… Expand
From the World-Systems Perspective to Institutional World History: Culture and Economy in Global Theory
- L. Benton
- Sociology
- 1996
Sympathetic critics of the world-systems perspective have emphasized the power of local conflict and culture to shape global structures. The critique has nevertheless left the main features of the… Expand
Social and Political Dynamics of the Informal Economy in African Cities
- L. Benton, K. Macharia
- Sociology
- 1 September 1998
A Search for Sovereignty: Law and Geography in European Empires, 1400-1900
- L. Benton
- Geography
- 30 November 2009
1. Introduction: anomalies of empire 2. Treacherous places: Atlantic riverine regions and the law of treason 3. Sovereignty at sea: jurisdiction, piracy, and ocean regionalism 4. Island chains:… Expand
The Informal Economy: Studies in Advanced and Less Developed Countries.
- Robert M. Jenkins, A. Portes, M. Castells, L. Benton
- Economics
- 1 March 1990
From International Law to Imperial Constitutions: The Problem of Quasi-Sovereignty, 1870–1900
- L. Benton
- Political Science
- 1 September 2008
The roots of the international legal order have often been traced to intertwining scholarly and political traditions dating back to the early seventeenth century, in particular to early writings in… Expand