DOUGLASS CECIL NORTH (1920-).
In: Fifty Major Economists, 1999-07-29, S. 174-177
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The article focuses on Douglass Cecil North, who has made contributions to three areas of economics. He has brought statistical methods to the study of economic history. He has examined and explained the role of institutions in regulating human behavior. And he has attempted to understand the historical forces that make economies rich or poor. These three lines of research are not quite as diverse as they might first appear. North has explained economic growth in terms of adopting the right institutions. He has also used statistical techniques to test his institutional theories about the causes of economic growth. North was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts in 1920. He attended college at the University of California in Berkeley because his father had been transferred to San Francisco and North did not want to be far from his family. In 1993, North and Robert Fogel, another economist, were made joint recipients of the Nobel Prize in Economic Science. In announcing this award the Nobel Prize committee cited the pioneering work of North and Fogel in the development of cliometrics, which involves the application of mathematical and statistical methods to the study of economic history.
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DOUGLASS CECIL NORTH (1920-).
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Autor/in / Beteiligte Person: | Pressman, Steven |
Zeitschrift: | Fifty Major Economists, 1999-07-29, S. 174-177 |
Quelle: | Fifty Major Economists; (1999-07-29) S. 174-177 |
Veröffentlichung: | 1999 |
Medientyp: | Buch |
ISBN: | 978-0-415-13481-1 (print) |
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