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Overview

Douglass C. North was affiliated with Washington University in St. Louis in the United States. Their academic work focused mainly on the fields of Economics, Econometrics and Finance, as well as Business, Management and Accounting.

Their research spanned several subfields including Accounting, Economics and Econometrics, and Finance. The main topics of their work encompassed Corporate Finance and Governance, Italy: Economic History and Contemporary Issues, and Banking stability, regulation, and efficiency.

Douglass C. North collaborated frequently with several coauthors throughout their career. Notable frequent coauthors included Barry R. Weingast, with whom they published three papers, as well as William R. Lewis, Lawrence Klein, Kenneth J. Arrow, and Paul A. Samuelson, each appearing as a coauthor on one occasion.

Their contributions to academic literature were disseminated in a number of book publications. Noteworthy publishers included Mohr Siebeck eBooks, which published two of their works: Theorie des institutionellen Wandels (2025) and Gewalt und Gesellschaftsordnungen (2025). Another book, Lives of the Laureates (2020), was published by The MIT Press.

  • Barry R. Weingast (3 co-authored works)
  • William R. Lewis (1 co-authored work)
  • Lawrence Klein (1 co-authored work)
  • Kenneth J. Arrow (1 co-authored work)
  • Paul A. Samuelson (1 co-authored work)

  • Corporate Finance and Governance
  • Italy: Economic History and Contemporary Issues
  • Banking stability, regulation, efficiency

  • Accounting
  • Economics and Econometrics
  • Finance

  • Economics, Econometrics and Finance
  • Business, Management and Accounting

  • Theorie des institutionellen Wandels, 2025, Mohr Siebeck eBooks
  • Gewalt und Gesellschaftsordnungen, 2025, Mohr Siebeck eBooks
  • Lives of the Laureates, 2020, The MIT Press

Best Publications

  • Institutions, Institutional Change, and Economic Performance

    Douglass C. North;John Alt

  • Institutions, Institutional Change and Economic Performance: Economic performance

    Unknown

  • Structure and Change in Economic History

    Douglass Cecil. North

  • Economic Performance Through Time

    Douglass C. North

  • The Rise of the Western World: A New Economic History

    Douglass Cecil North;Robert Paul Thomas

  • Constitutions and Commitment: The Evolution of Institutions Governing Public Choice in Seventeenth-Century England

    Douglass C. North;Barry R. Weingast

  • Institutions, Institutional Change and Economic Performance

    Douglass Cecil North

  • Understanding the Process of Economic Change

    Douglass Cecil North

  • Empirical Studies in Institutional Change: Epilogue: economic performance through time

    Unknown

  • THE ROLE OF INSTITUTIONS IN THE REVIVAL OF TRADE: THE LAW MERCHANT, PRIVATE JUDGES, AND THE CHAMPAGNE FAIRS

    Paul R. Milgrom;Douglass C. North;Barry R. Weingast

  • Institutional Change and American Economic Growth

    L. E. Davis;Douglass C. North

  • Location Theory and Regional Economic Growth

    Douglass C. North

  • Institutions and economic growth: An historical introduction

    Douglass C. North

  • The Economic Growth of the United States, 1790–1860

    Douglass Cecil North

  • Measuring the Transaction Sector in the American Economy, 1870-1970

    John J Wallis;Douglass North

  • The Rise of the Western World

    Douglass C. North;Robert Paul Thomas

  • Institutions, Institutional Change and Economic Performance.

    Geoffrey McNicoll;Douglass C. North

  • A Transaction Cost Theory of Politics

    Douglass North

  • A Conceptual Framework for Interpreting Recorded Human History

    Douglass North;John Joseph Wallis;Barry Weingast

  • Violence and Social Orders

    Douglass North;John Joseph Wallis;Barry Weingast

  • Institutions, institutional change and economic performance: Cambridge university press.

    DC North

  • Structure and Change in Economic History [Book review]

    Jack A. Goldstone;Douglass C. North

  • Structure and Change in Economic History

    Ira A. Glazier;Douglass C. North

  • Empirical Studies in Institutional Change: Constitutions and commitment: the evolution of institutions governing public choice in seventeenth-century England

    Douglass C. North;Barry R. Weingast

Frequent Co-Authors

Lee J. Alston
Lee J. Alston Indiana University
Finn E. Kydland
Finn E. Kydland Norwegian School of Economics
Jagdish N. Bhagwati
Jagdish N. Bhagwati Columbia University
Dani Rodrik
Dani Rodrik Harvard University
Lawrence R. Klein
Lawrence R. Klein University of Pennsylvania
Walter Gilbert
Walter Gilbert Harvard University
Richard J. Roberts
Richard J. Roberts New England Biolabs
Sheldon L. Glashow
Sheldon L. Glashow Boston University
Stanley N. Cohen
Stanley N. Cohen Stanford University
Richard E. Smalley
Richard E. Smalley Rice University

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