Douglass North

Douglass Cecil North (* 5. november 1920, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA – † 23. november 2015, Benzonia, Michigan^[1]) bol americký inštitucionálny ekonóm, známy hlavne ako historik hospodárstva.

Nositeľ Nobelovej ceny

Douglass C. North
americký inštitucionálny ekonóm
Narodenie	5. november 1920 Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
Úmrtie	23. november 2015 (95 rokov) Benzonia, Michigan, USA
Národnosť	americká
Alma mater	University of California, Berkeley
Odkazy
Commons	Douglass North
Biografický portál

V roku 1993 spolu s Robertom Fogelom získal Cenu Švédskej národnej banky za rozvoj ekonomickej vedy na pamiatku Alfreda Nobela za „znovuobnovenie výskumu ekonomickej histórie prostredníctvom aplikovania ekonomickej teórie a kvantitatívnych metód s cieľom vysvetliť ekonomické a inštitucionálne zmeny“.

Hlavné publikácie

• Location Theory and Regional Economic Growth, Journal of Political Economy 63(3):243 – 258, 1955
• The Economic Growth of the United States, 1790 – 1860, Prentice Hall, 1961.
• Institutional Change and American Economic Growth, Cambridge University Press, 1971 (with Lance Davis).
• The Rise of the Western World: A New Economic History, 1973 (with Robert Thomas).
• Growth and Welfare in the American Past, Prentice-Hall, 1974.
• Structure and Change in Economic History, Norton, 1981.
• Institutions and economic growth: An historical introduction, Elsevier, 1989
• Constitutions and Commitment: The Evolution of Institutions Governing Public Choice in Seventeenth-Century England, Cambridge University Press, 1989
• Institutions, Institutional Change and Economic Performance, Cambridge University Press, 1990.
• Institutions, 1991, The Journal of Economic Perspectives, Vol. 5, No. 1, pp. 97–112
• Economic Performance through Time, American Economic Association, 1994
• Empirical Studies in Institutional Change, Cambridge University Press, 1996 (edited with Lee Alston & Thrainn Eggertsson).
• Understanding the Process of Economic Change, Princeton University Press, 2005.
• Violence and Social Orders: A Conceptual Framework for Interpreting Recorded Human History, Cambridge University Press, 2009 (with John Joseph Wallis and Barry R. Weingast).

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