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Douglass C. North

Born

in Cambridge, Massachusetts, The United States

November 05, 1920

Died

November 23, 2015

Genre

Economic History

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Douglass Cecil North (November 5, 1920 – November 23, 2015) was an American economist known for his work in economic history. He was the co-recipient (with Robert William Fogel) of the 1993 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences. In the words of the Nobel Committee, North and Fogel "renewed research in economic history by applying economic theory and quantitative methods in order to explain economic and institutional change." ...more

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	Institutions, Institutional Change and Economic Performance 4.12 avg rating — 758 ratings — published 1990 — 28 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Violence and Social Orders: A Conceptual Framework for Interpreting Recorded Human History by Douglass C. North, John Joseph Wallis, Barry R. Weingast 4.05 avg rating — 331 ratings — published 2009 — 22 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Structure and Change in Economic History 4.06 avg rating — 203 ratings — published 1981 — 12 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Rise of the Western World: A New Economic History by Douglass C. North, Robert Paul Thomas 3.87 avg rating — 176 ratings — published 1973 — 17 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Understanding the Process of Economic Change 3.90 avg rating — 164 ratings — published 1998 — 19 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	في ظل العنف: السياسة والاقتصاد ومشكلات التنمية by Douglass C. North (Editor), John Joseph Wallis (Editor), Steven B. Webb (Editor) 3.67 avg rating — 54 ratings — published 2012 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Economic Growth of the United States: 1790-1860 3.65 avg rating — 43 ratings — published 1966 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Abortion, Baseball & Weed: Economic Issues of Our Times (Perennial library, P 275) by Douglass C. North, Roger LeRoy Miller 3.78 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 1973 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Growth and Welfare in the American Past: A New Economic History 3.56 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 1973 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Transaction Costs, Institutions, and Economic Performance (OCCASIONAL PAPERS (INTERNATIONAL CENTER FOR ECONOMIC GROWTH)) 3.71 avg rating — 7 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“Conformity can be costly in a world of uncertainty.”
― Douglass C. North, Understanding the Process of Economic Change

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“The opportunities for political and economic entrepreneurs are still a mixed bag, but they overwhelmingly favor activities that promote redistributive rather than productive activity, that create monopolies rather than competitive conditions, and that restrict opportunities rather than expand them. They”
― Douglass C. North, Institutions, Institutional Change and Economic Performance

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“Institutions, together with the standard constraints of economic theory, determine the opportunities in a society. Organization are created to take advantage of those opportunities, and, as the organizations evolve, they alter the institutions. The resultant path of institutional change is shaped by (1) the lock-in that comes from the symbiotic relationship between institutions and the organizations that have evolved as a consequence of the incentive structure provided by those institutions and (2) the feedback process by which human beings perceive and react to changes in the opportunity set.”
― Douglass C. North, Institutions, Institutional Change and Economic Performance

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