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Douglass Cecil North (November 5, 1920 – November 23, 2015) was an American economist known for his work in economic history. Along with Robert Fogel, he received the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 1993.
Douglass North was an American economist who applied economic theory and quantitative methods to explain economic and institutional change. He won the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences in 1993 for his work on the role of legal and social institutions in economic development.
Learn about the life and work of Douglass C. North, the American economist who won the Nobel Prize for his research on economic history and institutions. From his childhood in Cambridge to his academic career at Berkeley, Harvard, and the National Bureau of Economic Research, he developed a theory of endogenous growth and institutional change.
Douglass C. North, the 1993 Nobel laureate in economic sciences, delivered a lecture on the role of institutions and time in economic performance and development. He argued that institutions are the humanly devised constraints that structure human interaction and affect economic outcomes, and that time is the dimension of learning and evolution.
Nov 25, 2015 · Douglass C. North, a Nobel laureate whose work in applying economic theory to history offered a new understanding of how societies coordinate people’s behavior, died on Monday at his home in...
Nov 25, 2015 · Mr North was an American economic historian, who shared the Nobel prize in economic science with Robert Fogel, another economic historian, in 1993. (Fogel died in 2013.) Mr North's work tended...
Douglass C. North (born November 5, 1920, Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S.—died November 23, 2015, Benzonia, Michigan) was an American economist, recipient, with Robert W. Fogel, of the 1993 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences.
