| Violence and social orders: A conceptual framework for interpreting recorded human history DC North, JJ Wallis, BR Weingast Cambridge University Press, 2009 | 6111 | 2009 |
| Measuring the transaction sector in the American economy, 1870-1970 JJ Wallis, D North Long-term factors in American economic growth, 95-162, 1986 | 1627 | 1986 |
| Limited access orders in the developing world: A new approach to the problems of development DC North World Bank Publications, 2007 | 602 | 2007 |
| Integrating institutional change and technical change in economic history a transaction cost approach DC North, JJ Wallis Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics (JITE)/Zeitschrift für …, 1994 | 557 | 1994 |
| A conceptual framework for interpreting recorded human history D North, JJ Wallis, B Weingast National Bureau of Economic Research, 2006 | 465 | 2006 |
| Decentralization in the public sector: An empirical study of state and local government JJ Wallis, WE Oates Fiscal federalism: Quantitative studies 5, 32, 1988 | 456 | 1988 |
| In the shadow of violence: Politics, economics, and the problems of development DC North, JJ Wallis, SB Webb, BR Weingast Cambridge University Press, 2013 | 450 | 2013 |
| American government finance in the long run: 1790 to 1990 JJ Wallis Journal of Economic Perspectives 14 (1), 61-82, 2000 | 301 | 2000 |
| The American state constitutional tradition JJ Dinan University Press of Kansas, 2006 | 291 | 2006 |
| Constitutions, corporations, and corruption: American states and constitutional change, 1842 to 1852 JJ Wallis The Journal of Economic History 65 (1), 211-256, 2005 | 226 | 2005 |
| Banks and state public finance in the new republic: The United States, 1790–1860 R Sylla, JB Legler, JJ Wallis The Journal of Economic History 47 (2), 391-403, 1987 | 213 | 1987 |
| Violence and the rise of open-access orders DC North, JJ Wallis, BR Weingast Journal of democracy 20 (1), 55-68, 2009 | 201 | 2009 |
| The political economy of New Deal spending revisited, again: With and without Nevada JJ Wallis Explorations in Economic History 35 (2), 140-170, 1998 | 194 | 1998 |
| Can the New Deal’s three Rs be rehabilitated? A program-by-program, county-by-county analysis PV Fishback, S Kantor, JJ Wallis Explorations in Economic History 40 (3), 278-307, 2003 | 180 | 2003 |
| Measuring the transaction sector in the American economy, 1870-1970 DC North, JJ Wallis Long-term factors in American economic growth 51, 95-148, 1986 | 169 | 1986 |
| The birth of the old federalism: financing the New Deal, 1932–1940 JJ Wallis The Journal of Economic History 44 (1), 139-159, 1984 | 160 | 1984 |
| The concept of systematic corruption in American history JJ Wallis Corruption and Reform: Lessons from America's economic history, 23-62, 2006 | 157 | 2006 |
| Employment, politics, and economic recovery during the Great Depression JJ Wallis The Review of Economics and Statistics, 516-520, 1987 | 148 | 1987 |
| Employment in the Great Depression: New data and hypotheses JJ Wallis Explorations in Economic History 26 (1), 45-72, 1989 | 122 | 1989 |
| Growing, shrinking, and long run economic performance: historical perspectives on economic development S Broadberry, JJ Wallis National Bureau of Economic Research, 2017 | 120 | 2017 |
