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Douglass North

Douglass Cecil North

American economist and Nobel laureate (1920–2015).

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Sex or Gender

Male

Occupation

Economist
Economic Historian
Historian
University Teacher

Place of Birth

Country of Citizenship

United States

Date of Birth

11/5/1920

Instance Of

Human

Educated At

Employer

University of Cambridge

Given Name

Date of Death

11/23/2015

Place of Death

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Member Of

American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Name in Native Language

Douglass Cecil North

Field of Work

Economics

Family Name

Cause of Death

Languages Spoken, Written or Signed

English

Doctoral Advisor

Award Received

Distinguished Fellow of the American Economic Association
Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel
(1993)
Together With
:
Robert Fogel
Award Rationale
: for having renewed research in economic history by applying economic theory and quantitative methods in order to explain economic and institutional change
Award Rationale
: för att ha förnyat den ekonomiskhistoriska forskningen genom att använda ekonomisk teori och kvantitativa metoder för att förklara ekonomisk och institutionell förändring
Point in Time
: 1993

Manner of Death

Natural Causes

Interested In

History
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Choate Rosemary Hall
Esophageal Cancer
Cambridge
Benzonia
Douglass
Washington University in St. Louis
Guggenheim Fellowship
University of California, Berkeley
University of Washington
North
Adam Smith Award
(1994)
Point in Time
: 1994
Honorary Doctorate From University of Paris-XI
(6/12/2007)
Point in Time
: 6/12/2007
Melvin Moses Knight
Ashbury College
Honorary Doctor of Stockholm University of Economics
(1994)
Point in Time
: 1994