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Douglass C. North
Researcher at Washington University in St. Louis
Publications - 226
Citations - 102410
Douglass C. North is an academic researcher from Washington University in St. Louis. The author has contributed to research in topics: Transaction cost & Institutional theory. The author has an hindex of 71, co-authored 226 publications receiving 100257 citations. Previous affiliations of Douglass C. North include University of Washington & Illinois Institute of Technology.
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Government and the Cost of Exchange in History
TL;DR: In this article, a general transaction cost framework is developed to analyze the costs of exchange and the role of government in the cost of exchange, and three general types of exchange are specified: personal exchange, exchange without thirdparty enforcement, and exchange with third-party enforcement.
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A conceptual framework for interpreting recorded human history
TL;DR: This article developed an integrated theory of economics and politics, and showed how, beginning 10,000 years ago, limited access social orders developed that were able to control violence, provide order, and allow greater production through specialization and exchange.
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Ocean Freight Rates and Economic Development 1730-1913
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors describe the role of ocean shipping in the development of the United States economy and highlight the importance of ocean freight rates as an important part of the redirection of the resources of the western world in the course of the vast development over the past two centuries.
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Violence and Social Orders: The Conceptual Framework
TL;DR: In this article, the authors describe the underlying logic of two new patterns of social organization, what they call social orders, and explain how societies make the transition from one social order to the other.