Douglass North
Douglass North is co-recipient of the
1993 Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel. He joined the faculty of
Washington University in
Saint Louis, Missouri in
1983 as the Henry R. Luce Professor of Law and Liberty in the Department of
Economics, and served as director of the Center for
Political Economy from
1984 to
1990. In
1992, he became the first economic historian every to win one of the economics profession's most prestigious honors, the John R. Commons Award, which was established by the International Honors Society in Economics in
1965. His current research includes
property rights, transaction costs, and economic organization in history as well as economic development in
developing countries.
Publications:
Institutions, Institutional Change and Economic Performance. 1990, Cambridge University Press.
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