Douglass North

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gptkbp:instanceOf gptkb:person
gptkbp:almaMater gptkb:University_of_California,_Berkeley
gptkbp:awardReceived gptkb:Fellow_of_the_American_Academy_of_Arts_and_Sciences
gptkb:John_R._Commons_Award
gptkb:Nobel_Prize_in_Physics
gptkbp:birthDate 1920-11-05
gptkbp:birthPlace gptkb:Cambridge,_Massachusetts,_USA
gptkbp:children 3
gptkbp:deathDate 2015-11-23
gptkbp:deathPlace gptkb:Benzonia,_Michigan,_USA
gptkbp:doctoralAdvisor gptkb:Ernest_Francis_Penrose
gptkbp:employer gptkb:University_of_Washington
gptkb:Washington_University_in_St._Louis
gptkbp:field history
institutional economics
gptkbp:fullName gptkb:Douglass_Cecil_North
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label Douglass North
gptkbp:influenced gptkb:Barry_Weingast
gptkb:Daron_Acemoglu
gptkbp:influencedBy gptkb:Ronald_Coase
gptkb:Simon_Kuznets
gptkbp:knownFor Cliometrics
New institutional economics
gptkbp:memberOf gptkb:American_Economic_Association
gptkb:National_Academy_of_Sciences
gptkbp:nationality gptkb:American
gptkbp:NobelPrizeSharedWith gptkb:Robert_Fogel
gptkbp:NobelPrizeYear for having renewed research in economic history by applying economic theory and quantitative methods in order to explain economic and institutional change
1993
gptkbp:notableWork gptkb:Institutions,_Institutional_Change_and_Economic_Performance
gptkb:Structure_and_Change_in_Economic_History
gptkb:The_Rise_of_the_Western_World
gptkbp:occupation gptkb:economist
gptkbp:residence gptkb:Seattle,_Washington,_USA
gptkb:St._Louis,_Missouri,_USA
gptkbp:signature Douglass North signature.svg
gptkbp:spouse gptkb:Elisabeth_Case
gptkbp:bfsParent gptkb:Washington_University_in_St._Louis
gptkbp:bfsLayer 3