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Nobel Laureate Douglass North's work leaves a strong legacy for economics

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imageThe work of Douglass North, who died last week, continues to inspire studies of economic history.UNU-WIDER/Flickr, CC BY

Douglass C. North, who died last week at the age of 95, was one of the less well-known Nobel Laureates in economics. But his contributions to economic theory have had an enormous influence on how scholars understand institutions...

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