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	Douglass North - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Douglass Cecil North (born November 5, 1920) is co-recipient of the 1993 Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel.
		He joined the faculty of Washington University in Saint Louis in 1983 as the Henry R. Luce Professor of Law and Liberty in the Department of Economics, and served as director of the Center for Political Economy from 1984 to 1990.
		North served as an expert for the Copenhagen Consensus.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Douglas_North (320 words)

	Copenhagen Consensus 2004 – addresses 10 major challenges in the world. - Douglass North
		North, born in 1920, graduated with a triple bachelor's degree in political science, philosophy and economics from the University of California at Berkeley in 1942, and later, in 1952, earned a doctorate in economics there.
		North's research has focused on the formation of political and economic institutions and the consequences of these institutions on the performance of economies through time, including such areas as property rights, transaction costs, and the free rider problem.
		North is recognized as one of the founders of the "new institutional economics," and has done important work on the connection of the cognitive sciences to economic theory.
	www.copenhagenconsensus.com /Default.aspx?ID=178 (367 words)

	The Social Change Project - Douglass North (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Douglass C. North's major interest is the evolution of economic and political institutions.
		North's appointments at Washington University in Saint Louis follow thirty-two years at the University of Washington at Seattle, where he was director of the Institute for Economic Research for five years and chairman for twelve years.
		North received his B.A. in 1942 and his Ph.D. in 1952 from the University of California at Berkeley.
	www.mercatus.org /socialchange/people.php/20.html?menuid= (545 words)

	Frederick Douglass
		Douglass' narrative has stood out to many critiques for a number of reasons; first, in addition to being an author, he was also well noted for his oratory skills, this helped catapult Douglass' fame as well as his reputation as a great leader, orator and author.
		Douglass' narrative presents a more holistic view of his life, in that he presents himself as a p0erso9 before, after and during slavery, whereas many slave narratives end with the author finally feeling like a whole person after their long endurance with slavery.
		Douglass compared the slave holders treatment of their slaves with the demeanor they held in church justifying his conjecture that the slave holders were hypocrites and did not practice the pure and unadulterated word of God.
	www.gwu.edu /~e73afram/es-dp-ag.html (1735 words)

	Douglass North: Why Some Nations Can Sustain Growth (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		North, one the world's preeminent economic historians, has examined this question mainly by analyzing the historical development of various economies, and his analysis of the past has great value to our understanding of the present and to policy directions for the future.
		North, a professor of economics at Washing-ton University in St. Louis, recognized that standard textbook neoclassical economics, though useful and insightful in many ways, could not explain why many nations with abundant natural resources have failed to grow wealthy, while resource-poor countries have become rich.
		North defines institutions as "the rules of the game," and these rules take two forms: formal laws, such as a constitution that codifies the rules under which a society and an economy function; and informal codes of conduct and behavior.
	www.cipe.org /publications/fs/ert/e13/north-3.htm (3241 words)

	Douglass C. North, Nobel Laureate in Economic Science
		North received the Nobel Prize in 1993 for his research on the economic history of the U.S. and Europe, as well as for his contributions to understanding how economic and political institutions change over time.
		North advanced the notion that institutional structures, especially how property rights are handled within a society, made a considerable difference in that society's economic well-being.
		North was among the first to voice this theory in the 1970s, and he is credited with transforming the way many economists think about economic history and the development of market institutions.
	www.washington.edu /research/showcase/1960a.html (630 words)

	The Rochester Years
		Douglass had heated arguments with many of his fellow fl activists, but these debates showed that his people were beginning to involve themselves in the center of events affecting their position in America.
		During his years in Rochester, Douglass continued to grow in status as the editor of the nation's best known fl newspaper, in which he was free to attack slavery with all the power of his intellect.
		Douglass was lecturing in Philadelphia when he received the news about Brown's raid, and he was warned that letters had been found that implicated him in the attack.
	www.history.rochester.edu /class/douglass/part3.html (2322 words)

	FOR A FEW DOLLARS MORE: Global Poverty and the World Bank (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Douglass North is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution and a holder of the Nobel Prize in Economics.
		Douglass North: And having left them in a vacuum and without the kind of human capital of knowledge, what's happened is tribal dominations and so on, have produced all the worst kinds of institutions which inhibit economic growth, encourage income redistribution.
		Douglass North: We don't--we do not know enough about the process of economic change but you've got to inculcate and put in place institutions that provide incentives for people to be productive.
	www.uncommonknowledge.org /800/837.html (4069 words)

	LibertyGuide.com - Douglass North (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Douglass C. North, Spencer T. Olin Professor in Arts and Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis, received the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics in 1993.
		North has published groundbreaking work in economic history and theory, including The Rise of the Western World: A New Economic History, Structure and Change in Economic History, and Institutions, Institutional Change and Economic Performance.
		Professor North is recognized as one of the founders of the "new institutional economics," and has done important work on the connection of the cognitive sciences to economic theory.
	www.theihs.org /libertyguide/people.php/75913.html (161 words)

	The Civil War Years - The Fight For Emancipation
		Douglass continued to insist in his speeches and newspaper editorials that the aim of the war must be to abolish slavery and that fls must be allowed to join in the battle for their freedom.
		Douglass next turned his attention to the struggle of fls to be allowed to fight for their freedom.
		Douglass agreed and wrote an editorial that was published in the local newspapers.
	www.history.rochester.edu /class/douglass/part4.html (1755 words)

	Douglass North
		Douglass North is co-recipient of the 1993 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences.
		North began his academic career at the University of Washington in Seattle, where he spent 33 years as a member of the economics faculty, including a 12-year tenure as department chair and five years as director of the Institute for Economic Research.
		North is the author of 10 books, including Growth and Welfare in the American Past, 1966; The Rise of the Western World (with Robert P. Thomas) 1973; Structure and Change in Economic History, 1981; and Institutions, Institutional Change and Economic Performance, 1990.
	news-info.wustl.edu /sb/page/normal/146.html (1066 words)

	Washington University - News & Information
		Douglass C. North, Nobel Laureate and Spencer T. Olin Professor in Arts & Sciences at Washington University, was awarded the William Greenleaf Eliot Society "Search" Award at the society's annual dinner held on April 9 at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel, Clayton.
		The publication of North's books and articles reflect his research emphases covering property rights, transaction costs, economic organization in history, a theory of the state, the free rider problem, ideology, growth of government, economic and social change, and a theory of institutional change.
		Together with Robert W. Fogel, North received the Nobel Prize in economics in 1993 for "turning the theoretical and statistical tools of modern economics on the historical past: on subjects ranging from slavery and railroads to ocean shipping and property rights," according to David Warsh of the Boston Globe.
	news-info.wustl.edu /News/2002/eliot_society_north.html (453 words)

	Structure and Change in Economic History by Douglass C North, Search Cheap Books, Discount Books, ISBN 039395241X
		Is North's structure (and institutions) merely an aggregation of the choices of masses of agents, or is it the strategic choices of a few ruling principals and their agents, or is it the evolution of an impersonal body of culture, ideas, law, etc., or is it all three?
		In particular, North argues that "The physiography and resources of the regions together with the state of military technology played decisive roles in determining the size and characteristics of the state and in shaping the forms of economic organization" (pg.
		North should either have spent more time discussing how his theory relates to the event he surveys or let the reader apply the theory on her own and left the historical essays out entirely.
	www.comparebookprices.ca /book_detail/039395241X (1058 words)

	Nobel Prize Laureate Douglass C. North to give Gunnar Myrdal Lecture... - pr2003/03gen_p03e.htm
		Professor North was awarded the Nobel Prize in economics in 1993 for ground-breaking research in economic history that integrated economics, sociology, statistics and history to explain economic and institutional change and the role institutions play in economic growth.
		Professor North is one of the pioneers of “the new institutional economics”.
		Professor North was a member of the Board of Directors of the United States’ National Bureau of Economic Research for twenty-five years until 1986.
	www.unece.org /press/pr2003/03gen_p03e.htm (554 words)

	Agre's Review of Douglass North's Book (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Douglass North is by far the most interesting of a vast school of conservative economists and lawyers who have been trying to implement the deceptively simple intellectual program that Ronald Coase laid out in two papers, "The nature of the firm" and "The problem of social cost".
		North turns these forms of argument into a conceptual basis for economic history, as well as the comparative study of modern economies.
		The point is not that any particular theory of cognition is the last word, but that forms of cognition are now taken to be (as economists say) endogenous -- that is, historically variable, affecting other features of the system and affects by other features of the system.
	www-cse.ucsd.edu /~goguen/courses/275old/agre.northreview.html (313 words)

	Davidson Economic Times & Review
		North received the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 1993 for his research on the economic history of Europe and the United States as well as for his contributions to the understanding of how economic and political institutions change over time.
		Douglass North spoke to Davidson faculty and students on April 3, 2003, as part of Davidson's Cornelson Lecture Series.
		Dr. North is currently writing a book where he conveys his opinions and thoughts about how to achieve successful economic growth and the way in which economic institutions are linked to fulfilling this goal.
	www.davidson.edu /student/organizations/detr/article.asp?issue=s03&article=dept2 (592 words)

	Douglass C. North -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		The two were recognized for their pioneering work in cliometrics—also called “new economic history”—the application of economic theory and statistical methods to the study of history.
		North, Douglass C. American economist, recipient, with Robert W. Fogel, of the 1993 Nobel Prize for Economics.
		North earned a Ph.D. in economics from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1952, and was professor of economics from 1950 to 1983 at the University of Washington.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9056195?tocId=9056195 (817 words)

	Douglass North -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Douglass Cecil North (born November 5, 1920) is co-recipient of the 1993 (Click link for more info and facts about Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel) Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel.
		In 1992, he became the first (Click link for more info and facts about economic historian) economic historian ever to win one of the economics profession's most prestigious honors, the John R. Commons Award, which was established by the International Honors Society in Economics in 1965.
		North served as an expert for the (Click link for more info and facts about Copenhagen Consensus) Copenhagen Consensus.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/D/Do/Douglass_North.htm (162 words)

	North, D.C.: Understanding the Process of Economic Change.
		Douglass North inspired a revolution in economic history a generation ago by demonstrating that economic performance is determined largely by the kind and quality of institutions that support markets.
		North argues that economic change depends largely on "adaptive efficiency," a society's effectiveness in creating institutions that are productive, stable, fair, and broadly accepted--and, importantly, flexible enough to be changed or replaced in response to political and economic feedback.
		Douglass C. North is Professor of Economics and Spencer T. Olin Professor in Arts and Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis, and Bartlett Burnap Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution.
	www.pupress.princeton.edu /titles/7943.html (550 words)

	Nobel Economics Laureate Douglass North to speak at Rotman School of Management lecture to be followed by symposium on ...
		TORONTO - Douglass North, the co-winner of the 1993 Nobel Prize in Economic Science for his work in economic history, will speak on "The Role of Institutions in Economic Growth" at the Rotman School of Management on Thursday, October 22 at 4:30 pm.
		Douglass North is the Spencer T. Olin Professor in Arts and Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis.
		Born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Professor North graduated from the University of California at Berkeley with a triple BA in political science, philosophy, and economics in 1942, and later, in 1952 received at PhD in economics from there.
	www.rotman.utoronto.ca /news/greatminds2.html (600 words)

	Osher Map Library: The Percy Map: William Douglass
		Douglass was a lowland Scot from near Haddington in Lothian, east of Edinburgh.
		Douglass might have been induced not to encompass the territory of Sagadahoc, east of the Kennebec, not only because of the lack of English settlement there, but also because the territory's uncertain political status effectively placed it outside New England proper (Douglass 1749-52, 1:382-85).
		Douglass nonetheless described New Hampshire's laying out of the boundary line as being both definitive and legitimate (Douglass 1749-52, 1:422-24), and he prominently delineated that boundary line in his map.
	www.usm.maine.edu /~maps/percy/douglass.html (8237 words)

	White and Black Abolitionist Compared; Garrison's "Liberator" & Douglass' "North Star"
		Douglass however, is more well known for his large scale accomplishments that were achieved after he gained his freedom.
		Douglass became the leading vocalist for the cause of abolition under the tutelage of Garrison, and even gained international success and prestige, especially in England.
		Douglass did support non-violence as a general rule for obtaining for freedom, however he also supported self-defense for slaves so that could obtain their freedom (Rogers, 121-2).
	www.gwu.edu /~e73afram/abm-kf-am.html (2493 words)

	Institutions, Institutional Change and Economic Performance
		Continuing his groundbreaking analysis of economic structures, Douglass North develops an analytical framework for explaining the ways in which institutions and institutional change affect the performance of economies, both at a given time and over time.
		North argues that the kinds of skills and knowledge fostered by the structure of an economy will shape the direction of change and gradually alter the institutional framework.
		Douglass C. North is Director of the Center of Political Economy and Professor of Economics and History at Washington University in St. Louis.
	www.allbookstores.com /book/0521397340 (407 words)

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