Douglas North

Douglass Cecil North (born on November 5th, 1920) is a American economist . He received the “Nobel Prize” of economy in 1993.

Course

Born in Cambridge in the Massachusetts, it is graduate Université of Berkeley, in political sciences, philosophy and economy. It engages in the Merchant navy during the Second world war. Before obtaining its PhD, North also worked as photographer semi-professional, in particular with the photographer Dorothea Lange. Douglass North taught with the Université of Washington (Saint Louis) in 1983, like Henry R. Luce Law professor and Liberté in the department of economy. He was also director of the political center of economy of 1984 with 1990. In 1992, he becomes the first economist historian to gain one of most prestigious the rewards in the economists, the medal John R. Commons. With Ronald Coase and Oliver Williamson, it founded the international company for the new institutional economy, which held its first meeting in Sainjt Louis in 1997. Its current research relates to the property rights, the costs of transaction, the history of the economic organization and the economy of the development.

North is also to advise in the Consensus of Copenhagen.

Principal publications

Institutional Changes and American Economic Growth , Cambridge University Close, 1971 (with Lance Davis).
The Small channel off the World Western: In New Economic History , 1973 (with Robert Thomas).
Growth and Welfare in the American Past , Prentice-Hall, 1974.
Structure and Exchange in Economic History , Norton, 1981.
Institutions, Institutional Changes and Economic Performance , Cambridge University Press, 1990.
Empirical Studies in Institutional Change , Cambridge University Press, 1996 (with Lee Alston and Thrainn Eggertsson).
Understanding the Process off Economic Changes , Princeton University Press, 2004.

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