Details about Douglass C. North

Homepage:	http://www.nobel.se/economics/laureates/1993/
Postal address:	Douglass C. North obtained the Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel in 1993. His entry is maintained by the RePEc team. The listed email address will not respond to inquiries
Workplace:	Department of Economics, Washington University, (more information at EDIRC) Hoover Institution on War Revolution & Peace, Stanford University, (more information at EDIRC)

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Working Papers

2007

1. Limited access orders in the developing world:a new approach to the problems of development
   Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank View citations

2006

2. A Conceptual Framework for Interpreting Recorded Human History
   NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations

2003

3. Learning, Institutions, and Economic Performance
   Working Paper Series of the Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods, Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods
4. The Role of Institutions in Economic Development
   ECE Discussion Papers Series, UNECE

1997

5. The Process of Economic Change
   Research Paper, World Institute for Development Economics Research View citations

1996

6. Economic Performance Through Time: The Limits to Knowledge
   Economic History, EconWPA
7. Economics and Cognitive Science
   Economic History, EconWPA View citations
8. INSTITUTIONS, ORGANIZATIONS AND MARKET COMPETITION
   Economic History, EconWPA View citations
9. WHERE HAVE WE BEEN AND WHERE ARE WE GOING?
   Economic History, EconWPA View citations

1995

10. SOME FUNDAMENTAL PUZZLES IN ECONOMIC HISTORY/DEVELOPMENT
    Economic History, EconWPA View citations

1994

11. Autobiography
    Nobel Prize in Economics documents, Nobel Prize Committee
12. INSTITUTIONAL CHANGE: A FRAMEWORK OF ANALYSIS
    Economic History, EconWPA View citations
    See also Journal Article in VOPROSY ECONOMIKI
13. INSTITUTIONAL COMPETITION
    Economic History, EconWPA View citations
14. INSTITUTIONS AND PRODUCTIVITY IN HISTORY
    Economic History, EconWPA View citations
15. INSTITUTIONS MATTER
    Economic History, EconWPA View citations
16. Institutions and Credible Commitment
    Economic History, EconWPA View citations
17. PRIVATIZATION, INCENTIVES AND ECONOMIC PERFORMANCE
    Economic History, EconWPA View citations
18. THE EVOLUTION OF EFFICIENT MARKETS IN HISTORY
    Economic History, EconWPA
19. TRANSACTION COSTS THROUGH TIME
    Economic History, EconWPA View citations
20. The Historical Evolution of Polities
    Economic History, EconWPA View citations
    See also Journal Article in International Review of Law and Economics (1994)

1993

21. Economic Performance through Time
    Nobel Prize in Economics documents, Nobel Prize Committee View citations
    See also Journal Article in American Economic Review (1994)
22. Five Propositions about Institutional Change
    Economic History, EconWPA View citations
23. Institutions, Transaction Costs and Productivity in the Long Run
    Economic History, EconWPA
24. Shared Mental Models: Ideologies and Institutions
    Economic History, EconWPA View citations
    See also Journal Article in Kyklos (1994)
25. The New Institutional Economics and Development
    Economic History, EconWPA View citations
26. The Paradox of the West
    Economic History, EconWPA View citations

1990

27. A Transaction Cost Theory of Politics
    Working Papers, Washington St. Louis - School of Business and Political Economy View citations

Journal Articles

2009

1. A Recommendation on How to Intelligently Approach Emerging Problems in Intellectual Property Systems
   Review of Law & Economics, 2009, 5, (3)

2006

2. Desempeño Económico en el Transcurso de los Años
   Temas de Management, 2006, III, 16-24 View citations

2000

3. Big-Bang Transformations of Economic Systems - An Introductory Note
   Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics (JITE), 2000, 156, (1), 3- View citations
4. Introduction: Institutional Analysis and Economic History
   The Journal of Economic History, 2000, 60, (02), 414-417
5. La evolución histórica de las formas de gobierno
   Revista de Economía Institucional, 2000, 2, (2), 133-148 View citations

1997

6. Cliometrics--Forty Years Later
   American Economic Review, 1997, 87, (2), 412-14

1994

7. Bibliography of Douglass C. North's Publications, 1950-1993
   Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 1994, 96, (2), 195-99
8. Economic Performance through Time
   American Economic Review, 1994, 84, (3), 359-68 View citations
   See also Working Paper (1993)
9. El desempeño económico a lo largo del tiempo
   El Trimestre Económico, 1994, LXI(4), (244), 567-583 View citations
10. Shared Mental Models: Ideologies and Institutions
    Kyklos, 1994, 47, (1), 3-31 View citations
    See also Working Paper (1993)
11. The historical evolution of polities
    International Review of Law and Economics, 1994, 14, (4), 381-391 View citations
    See also Working Paper (1994)

1993

12. What Do We Mean by Rationality?
    Public Choice, 1993, 77, (1), 159-62

1992

13. The Vital One: Essays in Honor of Jonathan R. T. Hughes. Edited by Joel Mokyr. Research in Economic History Supplement 6. Greenwich, CT: JAI Press, 1991
    The Journal of Economic History, 1992, 52, (03), 744-745

1991

14. Institutions
    Journal of Economic Perspectives, 1991, 5, (1), 97-112 View citations

1990

15. Book Reviews
    Regional Studies, 1990, 24, (1), 83-92
16. THE ROLE OF INSTITUTIONS IN THE REVIVAL OF TRADE: THE LAW MERCHANT, PRIVATE JUDGES, AND THE CHAMPAGNE FAIRS
    Economics and Politics, 1990, 2, (1), 1-23 View citations

1989

17. Constitutions and Commitment: The Evolution of Institutions Governing Public Choice in Seventeenth-Century England
    The Journal of Economic History, 1989, 49, (04), 803-832 View citations
18. Institutions and economic growth: An historical introduction
    World Development, 1989, 17, (9), 1319-1332 View citations

1988

19. Should Transaction Costs be Subtracted from Gross National Product?
    The Journal of Economic History, 1988, 48, (03), 651-654 View citations

1987

20. Institutions, Transaction Costs and Economic Growth
    Economic Inquiry, 1987, 25, (3), 419-28 View citations
21. Measures and Men. By Witold Kula. Translated by Richard Szreter. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1986. Pp. 386. $39.50
    The Journal of Economic History, 1987, 47, (02), 593-595

1985

22. The growth of government in the United States: An economic historian's perspective
    Journal of Public Economics, 1985, 28, (3), 383-399 View citations

1984

23. Government and the Cost of Exchange in History
    The Journal of Economic History, 1984, 44, (02), 255-264 View citations

1983

24. Comment on Stigler and Friedland, "The Literature of Economics: The Case of Berle and Means."
    Journal of Law & Economics, 1983, 26, (2), 269-71

1982

25. American Government Expenditures: A Historical Perspective
    American Economic Review, 1982, 72, (2), 336-40 View citations
26. General and Miscellaneous The European Miracle: Environments, Economies, and Geopolitics in the History of Europe and Asia. By Eric Jones. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1981. Pp. ix, 276. $29.50 cloth, $9.95 paper
    The Journal of Economic History, 1982, 42, (02), 486-487

1980

27. Exports and economic growth
    Explorations in Economic History, 1980, 17, (1), 1-5

1979

28. A framework for analyzing the state in economic history
    Explorations in Economic History, 1979, 16, (3), 249-259 View citations
29. New Directions in Political Economy: An Approach from Anthropology. Edited by Madeline Barbara Léons and Frances Rothstein. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1979. Pp. xxvii, 350. $25.00
    The Journal of Economic History, 1979, 39, (04), 1088-1088

1978

30. Comment
    The Journal of Economic History, 1978, 38, (01), 77-80
31. Structure and Performance: The Task of Economic History
    Journal of Economic Literature, 1978, 16, (3), 963-78 View citations

1977

32. Economic growth: What have we learned from the past?
    Carnegie-Rochester Conference Series on Public Policy, 1977, 6, (1), 157-177

1976

33. The Place of Economic History in the Discipline of Economics
    Economic Inquiry, 1976, 14, (4), 461-65 View citations

1975

34. A Short History of Economic Progress. By Y. S. Brenner. London: Frank Cass & Company Limited, 1969. Pp. 295. $5.95 paper.Economic Growth in History, Survey and Analysis. By J. D. Gould. New York: Barnes & Noble Books, 1973. Pp. 446. $7.50 paper, $15.00 cloth.Economic Development in the Long Run. Edited by A. J. Youngson. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1973. Pp. 253. $9.95 cloth
    The Journal of Economic History, 1975, 35, (04), 844-846
35. Comment
    The Journal of Economic History, 1975, 35, (01), 18-19

1974

36. Beyond the New Economic History
    The Journal of Economic History, 1974, 34, (01), 1-7

1971

37. Institutional Change and Economic Growth
    The Journal of Economic History, 1971, 31, (01), 118-125 View citations
38. The Rise and Fall of the Manorial System: A Theoretical Model
    The Journal of Economic History, 1971, 31, (04), 777-803 View citations

1968

39. Sources of Productivity Change in Ocean Shipping, 1600-1850
    Journal of Political Economy, 1968, 76, 953 View citations

1961

40. O Crescimento Econômico Regional: Quatro Conferências do Professor Douglass C. North
    Revista Brasileira de Economia, 1961, 15, (3), 5-72

1956

41. Exports and Regional Economic Growth: A Reply
    Journal of Political Economy, 1956, 64, 165 View citations

1955

42. Location Theory and Regional Economic Growth
    Journal of Political Economy, 1955, 63, 243 View citations

Undated

43. Institutional Changes: A Framework of Analysis
    VOPROSY ECONOMIKI
    See also Working Paper (1994)

Books

2009

1. Violence and Social Orders
   Cambridge Books, Cambridge University Press

Chapters

2005

1. Introduction to Understanding the Process of Economic Change
   A chapter in Understanding the Process of Economic Change, 2005

1986

2. Measuring the Transaction Sector in the American Economy, 1870-1970
   A chapter in Long-Term Factors in American Economic Growth, 1986, pp 95-162 View citations

1960

3. The United States Balance of Payments, 1790-1860
   A chapter in Trends in the American Economy in the Nineteenth Century, 1960, pp 573-628 View citations