Douglass North - Major Publications

Major Publications

• 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).