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Douglass North
North diterima di Harvard University, tetapi karena ayahnya menjadi kepala MetLife di pantai barat, maka North pun memilih untuk mengambil studi di Universitas California, Berkeley. Pada tahun 1942 dia memperoleh gelar sarjana dalam kurikulum Humaniora dan kemudian berhasil menyelesaikan ilmu pengetahuan politik, filsafat dan ekonomi.
Pada tahun 1992, dia menjadi sejarawan ekonomi pertama yang memenangkan penghargaan paling populer di bidang ekonomi.
Penelitiannya saat ini meliputi hak kepemilikan, biaya transaksi, dan organisasi ekonomi dalam sejarah sebagaimana perkembangan ekonomi di negara berkembang.
North hingga saat ini mengajar di Washington University di St Louis dan merupakan Bartlett Burnap Senior Fellow di Hoover Institution di Stanford University. Karya yang telah dihasilkannya, Location Theory and Regional Economic Growth, Journal of Political Economy 63(3) : 243-258, 1955. The Economic Growth of the United States, 1790–1860, Prentice Hall, 1961. "The State of Economic History," American Economic Review, 55(1/2), p p. 86-91, 1965. Institutional Change and American Economic Growth, Cambridge University Press, 1971 (with Lance Davis). The Rise of the Western World: A New Economic History, 1973 (with Robert Thomas). Growth and Welfare in the American Past, Prentice-Hall, 1974. Structure and Change in Economic History, Norton, 1981. Institutions and economic growth: An historical introduction, Elsevier, 1989. Constitutions and Commitment : The Evolution of Institutions Governing Public Choice in Seventeenth-Century England, Cambridge University Press, 1989. Institutions, Institutional Change and Economic Performance, Cambridge University Press, 1990. Institutions, 1991, The Journal of Economic Perspectives, 5(1), pp. 97–112. "Economic Performance through Time," American Economic Review, 1994, 84(3), p p. 359-368 Also published as Nobel Prize Lecture. Empirical Studies in Institutional Change, Cambridge University Press, 1996 (edited with Lee Alston & Thrainn Eggertsson). Understanding the Process of Economic Change, Princeton University Press, 2005. Violence and Social Orders: A Conceptual Framework for Interpreting Recorded Human History, Cambridge University Press, 2009 (with John Joseph Wallis and Barry R. Weingast).
Pada tahun 1993 North memperoleh penghargaan Nobel dalam Ekonomi.
Riset dan analisis oleh Ayu Kurnia