Why Is Douglass North Influential?
According to Wikipedia , Douglass Cecil North was an American economist known for his work in economic history. He was the co-recipient of the 1993 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences. In the words of the Nobel Committee, North and Fogel "renewed research in economic history by applying economic theory and quantitative methods in order to explain economic and institutional change."
Douglass North's Published Works
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(1305) Institutions, Institutional Change and Economic Performance: Economic performance (1193) A Transaction Cost Theory of Politics (877) The rise of the western world (819) THE NEW INSTITUTIONAL ECONOMICS AND THIRD WORLD DEVELOPMENT (786) Location Theory and Regional Economic Growth (758) Institutions and economic growth: An historical introduction (697) Institutional Change and American Economic Growth. (677) Institutions and Credible Commitment (591) Measuring the Transaction Sector in the American Economy, 1870-1970 (579) Institutions, Institutional Change and Economic Performance. (489) The New Institutional Economics and Development (442) Empirical studies in institutional change (402) Institutions, Transaction Costs and Economic Growth (361) Markets and Other Allocation Systems in History: The Challenge of Karl Polanyi. (344) Limited Access Orders in the Developing World: A New Approach to the Problems of Development (339) Institutions and Economic Performance (295) Violence and Social Orders (280) Institutions and Economic Theory (270) Five Propositions about Institutional Change (265) Learning, Institutions, and Economic Performance (261) The Contribution of the New Institutional Economics to an Understanding of the Transition Problem (248) Transaction Costs, Institutions, and Economic Performance (247) Institutional Change: A Framework of Analysis (244) An Economic Theory of the Growth of the Western World (241) The Economic Growth of the United States, 1790-1860. (229) Ocean Freight Rates and Economic Development 1730-1913 (228) Institutional Change and Economic Growth (206) Sources of Productivity Change in Ocean Shipping, 1600-1850 (195) Institutions, Ideology, and Economic Performance (191) Violence and Social Orders by Douglass C. North (190) Institutions and the Performance of Economies over Time (189) Structure and Performance: The Task of Economic History (183) The Rise and Fall of the Manorial System: A Theoretical Model (178) In Search of the Holy Grail: Policy Convergence, Experimentation, and Economic Performance (172) Institutional Change and American Economic Growth: A First Step Towards a Theory of Institutional Innovation (166) In the shadow of violence : politics, economics, and the problems of development (166) The First Economic Revolution (163) Order, Disorder and Economic Change: Latin America vs. North America (155) Political institutions and financial development (149) Institutions, Institutional Change and Economic Performance: Organizations, learning, and institutional change (143) Government and the Cost of Exchange in History (142) A note on the economics of institutions (124) Violence and Social Orders: The Conceptual Framework (119) The Economic Growth Of The United States, 1790–1860 (117) Empirical Studies in Institutional Change: Epilogue: economic performance through time (116) A framework for analyzing the state in economic history (115) WHERE HAVE WE BEEN AND WHERE ARE WE GOING (112) The Role of Institutions in Economic Development (101) The Rise of the Western World: Frontmatter (96) Growth and Welfare in the American Past: A New Economic History (92) Institutions, Institutional Change and Economic Performance: An introduction to institutions and institutional change (91) Perspectives on Positive Political Economy: Institutions and a transaction-cost theory of exchange (90) Agriculture in Regional Economic Growth (90) The Political Economy of Merchant Empires: Institutions, Transaction Costs, and the Rise of Merchant Empires (89) Explaining Economic Change: The Interplay Between Cognition and Institutions (83) Institutions and the process of economic change (77) SOME FUNDAMENTAL PUZZLES IN ECONOMIC HISTORY/DEVELOPMENT (77) Institutions and Economic Growth: A Historical Introduction (75) The growth of government in the United States: An economic historian's perspective (74) Legally induced technical regress in the Washington salmon fishery (73) Governance, growth, and development decision-making (70) The New Institutional Economics (67) The Paradox of the West (62) TRANSACTION COSTS THROUGH TIME (61) Transaction Costs, Institutions, and Economic History (60) Economics and Cognitive Science (60) The Violence Trap: A Political-Economic Approach to the Problems of Development (60) The Economic Growth of the United States, 1790-1860 (57) Institutions and Economic Theory (57) What Do We Mean by Rationality (57) The historical evolution of polities (55) Should Transaction Costs be Subtracted from Gross National Product (51) Exports and Regional Economic Growth: A Reply (49) IDEOLOGY AND POLITICAL/ECONOMIC INSTITUTIONS (49) The United States Balance of Payments, 1790-1860 (48) A revolution in economics (48) Dealing with a Non-Ergodic World: Institutional Economics, Property Rights, and the Global Environment (47) American Government Expenditures: A Historical Perspective (45) The Process of Economic Change (44) Institutions, Transaction Costs and Productivity in the Long Run (43) The Adam Smith Address: Economic Theory in a Dynamic Economic World (43) PRIVATIZATION, INCENTIVES AND ECONOMIC PERFORMANCE (42) Institutions, Economic Growth and Free-dom: An Historical Introduction (42) Limited Access Orders: An Introduction to the Conceptual Framework (41) Beyond the New Economic History (41) Big-Bang Transformations of Economic Systems - An Introductory Note (39) A theory of economic change. (39) INSTITUTIONS, ORGANIZATIONS AND MARKET COMPETITION (37) Transaction Cost in History. (32) Economic Performance Through Time: The Limits to Knowledge (31) International Capital Flows and the Development of the American West (31) Institutions, Institutional Change and Economic Performance: Enforcement (27) What is Missing from Political Economy (27) The New Economic History After Twenty Years (27) Institutions, Institutional Change and Economic Performance: Cooperation: the theoretical problem (27) Is it worth making sense of Marx (26) Understanding Judicial Decision-Making: The Importance of Constraints on Non-Rational Deliberations (25) INSTITUTIONS AND PRODUCTIVITY IN HISTORY (24) Elements of Reason: Shared Mental Models: Ideologies and Institutions (24) A Transaction Cost Approach to the Historical Development of Polities and Economies (23) Government and the American Economy: A New History (23) Introduction: Institutional Analysis and Economic History (21) Institutional Change and American Economic Growth: THE THEORY DEVELOPED (20) Empirical Studies in Institutional Change: Constitutions and commitment: the evolution of institutions governing public choice in seventeenth-century England (19) Constraints on institutional innovation: transaction costs, incentive compatibility, and historical considerations. (19) The Historical Evolution of Politics (17) Life Insurance and Investment Banking at the Time of the Armstrong Investigation of 1905-1906 (17) Empirical Studies in Institutional Change: POLITICAL ECONOMY OF INSTITUTIONS AND DECISIONS (16) Explorations in the New Economic History: Essays in Honor of Douglass C. North (16) Encyclopedia of American economic history : studies of the principal movements and ideas (16) The Evolution Of Efficient Markets In History (16) Toward a Property-Rights Theory of Exploitation (16) Limited Access Orders: Rethinking the Problems of Development and Violence (15) Expert Panel Ranking (15) Institutional Changes: A Framework of Analysis (15) Wider Perspectives on Global Development (15) Economic History and Economic Theory: The New Economic History in America@@@The Reinterpretation of American Economic History@@@The Structure of the Cotton Economy of the Antebellum South@@@Institutional Change and American Economic Growth (15) In the Shadow of Violence: Lessons for Limited Access Societies (14) In the Shadow of Violence (13) Introduction to Understanding the Process of Economic Change (13) Learning, Institutions, and Economic Performance (13) Institutions, Institutional Change and Economic Performance: Institutions, economic theory, and economic performance (12) Comment on Stigler and Friedland, "The Literature of Economics: The Case of Berle and Means" (12) Cliometrics--Forty Years Later (12) Institutions, Institutional Change and Economic Performance: The path of institutional change (12) The Estimation of Shipping Earnings in Historical Studies of the Balance of Payments (11) Lessons: In the Shadow of Violence (11) The growth of the American economy to 1860 (11) Early National Income Estimates of the U. S. (9) THE PLACE OF ECONOMIC HISTORY IN THE DISCIPLINE OF ECONOMICS (8) Exports and economic growth (8) The Livelihood of Man. By Karl Polanyi. New York, Academic Press, Inc., 1977. Pp. lv + 280. $17.50. (8) Institutions, Institutional Change and Economic Performance: Formal constraints (7) A Note on Professor Rostow's “Take‐off” into Self‐sustained Economic Growth (7) Toward an understanding of property rights (6) The Rise of the Western World: The Issue (6) Institutions, Institutional Change and Economic Performance: Informal constraints (6) Institutions, Institutional Change and Economic Performance: Stability and change in economic history (6) A Recommendation on How to Intelligently Approach Emerging Problems in Intellectual Property Systems (6) The Institutional Foundations of East Asian Development: A Summary Evaluation (6) The evolution of modern institutions of growth (6) Empirical Studies in Institutional Change: The economics and politics of institutional change (5) The role of institutions in economic development : Gunnar Myrdal lecture (5) Institutions, Institutional Change and Economic Performance: A transaction cost theory of exchange (5) Institutions, Institutional Change and Economic Performance: The behavioral assumptions in a theory of institutions (5) Institutions, Institutional Change and Economic Performance: Institutions and transaction and transformation costs (5) Cognitive Science and the Study of the “Rules of the Game” in a World of Uncertainty (5) What do we mean by rationality? (5) Institutions, Institutional Change and Economic Performance@@@Perspectives on Positive Political Economy (5) The Theoretical Tools of the Economic Historian (5) Measures and Men. By Witold Kula. Translated by Richard Szreter. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1986. Pp. 386. $39.50 (5) Economic Growth Revisited@@@Dynamics of Ascent: A History of the American Economy.@@@Growth & Welfare in the American Past: A New Economic History. (4) Learning , Institutions , and Economic Performance processes (4) Institutions, Institutional Change and Economic Performance: Series editor's preface (4) In the Shadow of Violence: Lessons (4) In the Shadow of Violence: Limited Access Orders (3) From Limited Access to Open Access Order in Chile, Take Two (3) Institutions Institutional Change And Economic Performance Political Economy Of Institutions And Decisions (3) Coordination and Coercion: The Nature of Rules, Governments, States, and Social Dynamics (3) In the Shadow of Violence: A New Perspective on Development (3) Property Rights in Land and Man (3) Industrialization in the United States (1815–60) (3) The Rise of Western Capitalism (3) Reply to Professor D. Ringrose (3) Institutions, Institutional Change and Economic Performance: Incorporating institutional analysis into economic history: prospects and puzzles (3) Institutions and Economics (2) A Conversation with Douglass North (2) The Sources of Economic Growth in The United States and the Alternatives Before Us . By Edward F. Denison. New York: Committee for Economic Development, 1962. Pp. 308. $4.00 (paperback). (2) Apprentissage, institutions et performance économique (2) Price controls, property rights, and institutional change (2) Institutional Change and American Economic Growth: A theory of institutional change: concepts and causes (2) Empirical Studies in Institutional Change: Transaction costs and economic development (2) Capitalism and Economic Growth (2) Violence and Social Orders: Open Access Orders (2) Empirical Studies in Institutional Change: Regulation in a dynamic setting (2) Economic growth: What have we learned from the past? (2) Structure and Change in Economic History [Book review] (2) Violence and Social Orders: Preface (2) Partnership as a Means to Improve Economic Performance (2) Political Instability, Institutions, and Economic Growth (2) DETERMINANTS OF PUBLIC TRUST TOWARDS MAJOR POLITICAL INSTITUTIONS IN COUNTRIES WITH ECONOMIES IN TRANSITION AND IN THE OECD COUNTRIES: THE COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS (1) Where Have We Been and Where are We Going? (1) Legal Change in Economic Analysis (1) Institutions, Institutional Change and Economic Performance. By Douglass C. North. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990. viii + 152 pp. Cloth, $32.50; paper, $10.95.) (1) Merchants, Farmers, and Railroads. Lee Benson (1) Institutional Change and American Economic Growth: A theory of institutional innovation: description, analogy, specification (1) 1. Political Institutions and Financial Development (1) Glenn Porter, editor. Encyclopedia of American Economic History: Studies of the Principal Movements and Ideas. In three volumes. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. 1980. Pp. xii, 483; 487–893; 894–1,286 (1) ‘ Natural ’ States and the Development of Democracy (1) Change and Continuity in a Limited Access Order (1) INNOVATION AND DIFFUSION OF TECHNOLOGY A THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK (1) Government & the American economy : a new history (1) Empirical Studies in Institutional Change: Regulating natural resources: the evolution of perverse property rights (1) The Rise of the Western World: Economic Conditions at the End of the Early Middle Ages (1) Violence and Social Orders: A New Research Agenda for the Social Sciences (1) The Rise of the Western World by Douglass C. North (1) Institutions, Institutional Change and Economic Performance: References (1) Institutional Change and American Economic Growth: The labor force: organization and education (1) Reply to “The First Economic Revolution” As Fiction (1) Empirical Studies in Institutional Change: Impediments to institutional change in the former Soviet system (1) Institutional Change and American Economic Growth: Land policy and American agriculture (1) The violence trap: a political-economic approach to the problems of development (1) On Kenneth Binmore’s Natural Justice (1) The Rise of the Western World: The Netherlands and Successful Economic Growth (1) The Rise of the Western World: The Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries (1) The Rise of the Western World: Preface (1) The E ciency Frontier for Economic Growth: Evidence of a Nonlinear Frontier Relationship Between Volatility and Growth (1) Chapter One. An Outline of the Process of Economic Change (1) Critical Realism and Institutionalism : Integrating the Scientific Method of John R . Commons (1) American Economic Growth and Institutional Change (1) Violence and Social Orders: The Natural State (1) Bibliography of Douglass C. North's Publications, 1950-1993 (1) The Rise of the Western World: France and Spain – The Also-Rans (0) The Rise of the Western World: The Early Modern Period (0) Fiscal Policy and Property Rights (0) Agenda For A History Of Management Policies Towards Labor In The United States (0) SUMMARY : Informal institutions and economic development (0) Institutions, Institutional Change and Economic Performance: Stability and institutional change (0) The changing public–private mix (0) Violence and Social Orders: The Natural State Applied: English Land Law (0) CHAPTER FIVE Institutional Change in American Economic History (0) Critical Realism and Institutionalism: Integrating the Scientific Method of John R. Commons and (0) Limited Government and Liberal Markets: (0) The Emergence of a National Economy, 1775-1815@@@The Economic Growth of the United States, 1790-1860 (0) Reviews WHEN GREAT ECONOMISTS KNOW A LOT ABOUT HISTORY (0) Comment on Bo Gustafsson's “The methodological problems of institutional economic history” (0) Chapter Twelve. Improving Economic Performance (0) Violence and Social Orders: Contents (0) Violence and Social Orders: References (0) Institutional Change and American Economic Growth: Institutional change in the service industries (0) Book Review:Economics and World History: Myths and Paradoxes. Paul Bairoch (0) The First Industrial Revolution. By Phyllis Deane. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1965. Pp. vii, 295. $8.00 (clothbound); $2.95 (paperback) (0) BOOK REVIEWS (0) sbs505010 1 (X 0) (0) Institutional Bases for Capitalist Growth (0) 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. (0) Political Institutions and Financial Development: A Summary (0) Economic growth in history and in theory (0) 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. (0) How the West Grew Rich: The Economic Transformation of the Industrial World. By Rosenberg Nathan and Birdzell L. E. Jr., (New York: Basic Books, Inc., 1986. Pp. xii + 353. $19.95.) (0) 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. (0) Violence and Social Orders: The Transition Proper (0) Douglass C. North's the Economic Growth of the United States, 1790-1860 Revisited@@@The Economic Growth of the United States, 1790-1860 (0) The politics of institutional change in a representative democracy (0) The Rise of the Western World: England (0) The Commercial Revolution of the Middle Ages, 950-1350@@@The Rise of the Western World: A New Economic History (0) Law and economics in historical perspective (0) Constituciones y compromiso: la evolución de las instituciones públicas gubernamentales en la Inglaterra del siglo XVII (0) In Memoriam (0) The Rise of the Western World: The High Middle Ages: A Frontier Movement (0) Institutional Change and American Economic Growth: Changes in the institutional environment: exogenous shifts and arrangemental innovation (0) Douglass C. North: Interviewed by Gary D. Libecap, John S. Lyons and Samuel H. Williamson (0) The Rise of the Western World: An Overview (0) Institutional Change and American Economic Growth: Transportation developments and economic growth (0) O książce Douglassa C. Northa "Understanding the process of economic change" / Zygmunt Mazurkiewicz. (0) Institutional Change and American Economic Growth: Economies of scale, unsuccessful cartelization, and external costs: some sidelights on the growth of manufacturing in the United States (0) Back Matter (0) Comment on the Riker paper (0) History and the analysis of arrangemental change: a look to the past with an eye to the future (0) The Rise of the Western World: Thirteenth-Century Europe (0) Violence and Social Orders: The Transition from Limited to Open Access Orders: The Doorstep Conditions (0) Institutional Change and American Economic Growth: Preface (0) American Economic Association Economic Performance Through Time (0) Institutional Change and American Economic Growth: Organization and reorganization in the financial markets: savings and investment in the American economy, 1820–1950 (0) The Spatial And Interregional Frame Work Of The U.S. Economy (0) The government, coercion, and the redistribution of income (0) 1 WHERE HAVE WE BEEN AND WHERE ARE WE GOING ? 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