| Douglass C. North AKA Douglass Cecil North Born: 5-Nov-1920
Birthplace: Cambridge, MA
Died: 23-Nov-2015
Location of death: Benzonia, MI
Cause of death: Cancer - Throat
Gender: Male
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Economist, Historian Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Cliometrics Douglass C. North and Robert W. Fogel were jointly awarded the Nobel Prize in Economics in 1993, for their development of "cliometrics", a new method of studying economic history using modern statistical techniques. North was also known for research that suggests that the free-market cannot generate growth unless protected by strong governmental and legal institutions, including courts and intellectual property laws. Before becoming an economic historian, North worked briefly as a photographer under Dorothea Lange. Father: (insurance executive)
Wife: Lois Hiester (m. 1944, div., three sons)
Son: Douglass North
Son: Christopher North
Son: Malcolm North
Wife: Elisabeth W. Case (m. 1972, until his death)
High School: Choate Rosemary Hall
University: BA General Curriculum, University of California at Berkeley (1942)
Teacher: Navigation, U.S. Merchant Marine (1944-46)
Teacher: Economics, University of Washington (1950-71)
University: PhD Economics, UC Berkeley (1952)
Professor: Economics, University of Washington (1971-83)
Professor: Political Economics, Rice University (1979)
Professor: Economics, Washington University in St. Louis (1983-)
Nobel Prize for Economics 1993 (with Robert W. Fogel)
American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Economists for Peace and Security
Hoover Institution Fellow
Social Science Research Council
National Bureau of Economic Research Research fellow (1957-58)
National Bureau of Economic Research Director (1967-87)
Western Economic Association
Author of books:
The Economic Growth of the United States, 1790-1860 (1961, economics)
Growth and Welfare in the American Past: A New Economic History (1966, economics)
Institutional Change and American Economic Growth (1971, economics)
The Rise of the Western World: A New Economic History (1973, economics)
Abortion, Baseball and Weed: Economic Issues of Our Times (1973, economics)
Structure and Change in Economic History (1981, economics)
Institutions, Institutional Change and Economic Performance (1990, economics)
Understanding the Process of Economic Change (2005, economics)
Violence and Social Orders: A Conceptual Framework for Interpreting Recorded Human History (2009, history)
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