Inventory of the Douglass Cecil North Papers, 1953-2006 and undated
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TitleDouglass Cecil North Papers,
1953-2006 and undated
Creator
North, Douglass Cecil
Extent
42.2 Linear
Feet
35,100 Items
Repository
35,100 Items
Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special
Collections Library, Duke University
Language
English.
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Administrative Information
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Preferred Citation
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Papers, Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections
Library, Duke University.
Provenance
The Douglass Cecil North Papers were received by
the Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library
as a gift in 1993, 2000, and 2008.
Processing Information
Processed by Kirk White, Ann Langford, Paula
Jeannet Mangiafico
Completed October 25, 2000
Encoded by Lisa Stark, Paula Jeannet Mangiafico
Accessions 1993-0275, 2000-0086 were merged
into one collection, described in this finding aid.
Accession 2008-0109 processed and encoded by Noah Huffman, July 9, 2008.
This finding aid is NCEAD compliant.
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Biographical Note
| 1920 | Born in Cambridge, Mass. |
| 1941 | Worked for one summer with Dorothea Lange, photographer; her husband, in Economics Department at the University of California, convinced North to study economics |
| 1942 | B.A. from University of California, Berkeley |
| 1950-1979 | Professor at University of Washington |
| 1952 | Received Ph.D. from University of California, Berkeley |
| 1956-1957 | Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research; major quantitative study of the balance of payments of the United States from 1790 to 1860 led to publication of first book in 1961 |
| 1960-1966 | Co-editor of the Journal of Economic History |
| 1961 | Publication of book, The Economic Growth of the United States, 1790 to 1860 |
| 1961- | Director, Institute of Economic Research at Washington |
| 1966 | Publication of book, Growth and Welfare in the American Past: A New Economic History |
| 1966-1967 | Became interested in European economic history and spent the year in Geneva as a Ford Faculty Fellow |
| 1971 | Publication of book, Institutional Change and American Economic Growth (with L. E. Davis) |
| 1972 | President of the Economic History Association |
| 1973 |
Publication of book,
The Rise of the
Western World: A New Economic History (with R. P.
Thomas)
Visiting Director of the Centre de
Recherche Historique at the Ecole Pratique des Hautes
Etudes, Paris
|
| 1975 | President of Western Economic Association |
| 1979 | Professor, Rice University |
| 1981 | Publication of book, Structure and Change in Economic History |
| 1981-1982 | Professor, University of Cambridge, England |
| 1982 | Returned to University of Washington |
| 1983 | Moved to Washington University in St. Louis, where he created the Center in Political Economy |
| 1990 | Publication of book, Institutions, Institutional Change, and Economic Performance |
| 1993 | Awarded Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics (jointly with Robert W. Fogel) |
| 1996 | Elected as Fellow of the British Academy |
Collection Overview
The papers of university professor and Nobel
Prize-winning economist Douglass C. North span the dates
1953-1999, with most of the papers being dated between 1980
and 1997. They consist chiefly of professional
correspondence written and received by North, writings by
North and other colleagues, and files on conferences
attended by North; there are also some materials relating
to courses he taught. The collection documents North's
career as an economist and professor at Berkeley,
University of Washington, Rice University, and Washington
University (Missouri), and reflects his interests in the
economic history of the western
world,
industrialization,
transaction costs,
economic development, and
technology. More specifically,
the papers document his long-standing interest in
explaining
institutional change and
political economies without relying exclusively on
neo-classical economic theories. Among the correspondents
are many noted economists, including
Reuven Brenner,
Robert Clower,
Robert Fogel,
Deirdre N. McCloskey,
Yoram Barzel,
Robert Haveman,
R. H. Coase,
Simon Kuznets,
Vernon Smith, and
T. N. Srinivasan. Duke
University faculty are represented by
Robert Bates and
Robert Keohane. Some of these
correspondents are also represented in the writings series
of this collection.
While much of the Professional Correspondence Series
concerns routine academic administrative matters such as
recommendations and travel arrangements, a large part also
documents the development of North's career and academic
interests, reflected through correspondence concerning
economic issues, theories, and events. Many of the
correspondents also sent North drafts of papers and
articles for comment. Much of the correspondence results
directly from North's acceptance of the Nobel Prize in
1993, with most of it consisting of congratulations and
invitations.
The Writings Series
consists of published articles and essays written by North
and his colleagues. Topics include
economic development and growth,
international economic policies,
and
economic history. The series
contains more than 50 writings by North, including some
early works from the 1950s and 1960s on United States
economic issues such as
industrialization and
regional economic growth. There
is also a group of drafts of North's work,
Institutions, Institutional
Change and Economic Performance, published in 1990.
One small group of correspondence, notes, and writings is
related to North's intense involvement with a working group
who, under the auspices of the Committee on Basic Research
of the National Research Council, ultimately published a
report entitled
"The Emergence of Social,
Political, and Economic Institutions"
.
The largest series in the collection is the
Conferences and Seminars Series,
which documents North's active participation in conferences
and lectures chiefly from 1980 to 1997. Many of the
conference programs concern economic history, economic
growth, and institutional change. Many files contain drafts
of lectures given by North or notes taken by him during
conference proceedings.
The smallest group, the Course Materials Series, is arranged
by date, and includes course syllabi, exams, and notes from
North's classes at
Washington University, as well
as the Business School in Prague, with which he was
affiliated for several years in the 1990s.
Addition of 2008 (2008-0109) (18,900 items, 25.2 lin. ft.; dated 1950s-2006) contains reprints, writings, conference and seminar files, correspondence, and other office files. Also included are book contracts, course materials, and files related to North's involvement with the Commission on Civil Rights.
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Subject Headings
These are searchable subject entries for this collection. Performing a search on these subjects in the Duke University Libraries online catalog will bring up other related research materials.
- North, Douglass Cecil.
- Brenner, Reuven.
- Smith, Vernon L.
- Fogel, Robert William.
- Clower, Robert W.
- Keohane, Robert O. (Robert Owen), 1941- .
- Bates, Robert H.
- Kuznets, Simon Smith, 1901- .
- Srinivasan, T. N., 1933- .
- Barzel, Yoram.
- Haveman, Robert H.
- Coase, R. H. (Ronald Harry).
- McCloskey, Deirdre N.
- Economists--Correspondence.
- Washington University (Saint Louis, Mo.)--Faculty.
- Economic history-Congresses
- Economics--Methodology.
- Economics--Study and teaching.
- Economic history.
- Keynesian economics.
- Industrialization.
- Transaction costs.
- Economic development.
- International economic relations.
Detailed Description of Collection
Professional Correspondence Series, 1983-1997
Chiefly letters of reference, evaluations, and
other routine academic correspondence. In a few cases,
papers or abstracts of papers are attached to
correspondence. Personal names listed below include some of
the more prominent correspondents. Note:
Donald N. McCloskey
legally changed his name in the 1990s to
Deirdre N. McCloskey. The correspondence is organized by date. In most
cases there is one folder for each month. There is no
correspondence for May through December, 1984.
[RESTRICTION: Contains letters of reference. Patrons must
sign an Acknowledgment of Legal Responsibilities and
Privacy Rights form before using this collection. Contact
Research Services.]
Box 1
1983 Aug.-Sept.,to
Reuven Brenner, on his
originality; to
Vernon Smith,
others
1983 Oct.,
Reuven Brenner,
others
1983 Nov.,to
Eli Shapiro on the
future of the
National Bureau of Economic
Research (NBER); others
1983 Dec.,on
Reuven Brenner; to
Donald McCloskey;
others
1984 Jan.,
Donald McCloskey,
others
1984 Feb.,to
Julian Simon on growth,
new knowledge, and new technology; to
Simon Kuznets,
others
1984 Mar.,on
Reuven Brenner,
others
1984 Apr.,to
Robert Clower (editor of
American Economic
Review at the time)
1985 Jan.,
Robert Clower, other
correspondence
1985 Feb.,
Reuven Brenner,
others
1985 Mar.,
Reuven Brenner,
others
1985 Apr.
1985 May
1985 June-July,
Robert Bates (of Duke),
other correspondence
1985 Sept.,
Reuven Brenner, Yoram Barzel, T. N. Srinivasan, Donald McCloskey,
others
1985 Oct.,
Robert Keohane (now of
Duke, Political Science), others
1985 Nov.,
Robert Keohane,
others
1985 Dec.,Paper: "A Critique of
Mancur Olson on the Rise
and Decline of Nations" by
Angus Maddison;
correspondence with
Reuven Brenner,
others
1986 Jan.
1986 Feb.,Drafts of "How the West Grew Rich: The Economic
Transformation of the Industrial World" by
Nathan Rosenberg and
L. E. Birdzell, Jr.;
other correspondence.
1986 Mar.,Notes on F. Hayek's
Constitution of
Liberty (1959); other correspondence
1986 Apr.,Dissertation proposal by S. Chan; other
correspondence
1986 May
1986 June,Letter to
Robert E. Lucas, other
correspondence
1986 July,
Martin Feldstein; Draft
of
"The Economic
Consequences of the Constitution "
by
North
1986 Aug.,
Robert Bates (of Duke);
other correspondence
1986 Sept.,
Vernon Smith, other
correspondence
1986 Oct.
1986 Nov.,
Donald McCloskey, other
correspondence
1986 Dec.,
Robert Fogel, other
correspondence
1987 Jan.,
Paul David,
others
1987 Feb.,Revisions of
"Integrating
Transactions Costs into Economic History, "
Paul Romer; some
financial papers
1987 Mar.
1987 Apr.,One letter in French;
Vernon Smith, John Hughes; some
financial information
1987 May,
Vernon Smith, Reading
List in Economic History,
Robert Haveman
(co-editor
American Economic
Review), T.N. Srinivasan, Paul David
1987 June,
Ronald Coase,
Paul David,
Srinivasan
1987 July,
Donald McCloskey, Robert Keohane, a long
letter to
Yoram Barzel
1987 Aug.,
Paper: "Report to the Committee on
Basic Research of the
National Research Council
from the Working Group on the Emergence of
Social, Political and Economic Institutions."
Review by
Bill Parker of a paper
by North
Paper by
Pranab Bardham on
Institutions and
Historical
Materialism
Long letter to
Robert Bates (Duke
University) on the
Coase
Theorem
Anonymous paper on
"Group Behaviour and
Economic Growth "
for the
Social Science
Quarterly
1987 Sept.,
Yoram Barzel, Robert Haveman, Warren Samuels,
others
1987 Oct.,Curriculum Vitae for
Vernon Smith, other
correspondence
1987 Nov.,
Vernon Smith, others
1987 Dec.,to
Anthony Low at Duke,
others; second draft of
"Report to the
Committee on Basic Research"
Box 2
1987 June-1988 June
1988 Jan.-1988 May (5
folders)
1988 June, Hong Kong
exams
1988 July-Dec. (6
folders)
1988, History of Freedom Professor
Recruitment
1988,
Political Economy Center
1989 Jan.-Mar. (3
folders)
1989 Mar., Wallis - NSF
Request
1989 Apr.-Dec. (9
folders)
1990 Jan.-Dec. (12
folders)
1991 Jan.-May (5
folders)
Box 3
1991 Jun.-Dec. (7
folders)
1992 Jan.-Dec. (13
folders)
1993 Jan.-Dec. (13
folders)
1994 Jan.
Box 4
1994 Jan.-Mar. (3
folders)
1993 May-1994 Mar., Nobel
Prize
1994 Apr.-Dec. (10
folders)
1995 Jan.-Dec. (12
folders)
Box 5
1995 Mar., Economic Transition
Group
1996 Jan.-Dec. (12
folders)
1996 Nov.-1997 Oct.,
Widener University
1996 Dec.-1997 Oct.,
Cambridge University Press
- Clark Gibson manuscript
1996 Dec.-1997 Jan., World
Development Report
1996 Dec.-1997 Mar.,
National Research
Council/Task Force
1996-1997, Contracts
1996-1997,
Mario Drago
1996-1997, Federal
Papers
1996-1997, Invitations
Accepted
1996 - 1997, Invitations Declined (2
folders)
1996-1997, Paper Review
Requests
1996-1997, Publication
Agreements
1996-1997,
Recommendations
1996-1997, Travel
Correspondence
1997 Jan.-Mar. (3
folders)
1997 Apr.-Aug. (5 folders)
1997 June-Aug.,
Pi Sigma Alpha
Meeting
1997 Sept.
1997 Dec.,
International Center for Economic
Growth (ICEG)
Writings Series, 1953-1996 and undated
Published articles, chapters, reports, drafts
of essays and articles, notes, and occasional
correspondence. Arranged alphabetically by author's last
name.
Box 6
Aberbach, Joel D. "The Congressional
Committee Intelligence." [1985 Aug.]
Achen, Christopher H. "Prospective
Voting and the Theory." [1989 Aug. 26]
Alston, Eggertsson, North. Empirical
Studies in Institutional Change. Notes, Correspondence, and
Writings, 1975-1992.
Alston, Lee J. and Ferrie, Joseph P.
"The Use of In-Kind Benefits in Agriculture." [1986
Jan.]
Alston, Lee and Gillespie, William.
"Resource Coordination and Transactions Costs." [Revised
1986 Jan.]
Alt, James E. "It May Be A Good Way
to Run An Oil Company." [undated]
Amel, Eric. "Bidding Behavior of
Investment Bankers." [undated]
Anderson, Gary M. "Exploding the
Myth of the Gunpowder Revolution." [1984]
Anderson, Gary M., Shughart and
Tollison. "Adam Smith in the Custom House." [1984 -
draft]
Aumann, Robert J. "Agreeing to
Disagree." [1976]
Austen-Smith, David. "Endogenous
Agenda Formation." [1986]
Bach, Stanley. "An Introduction to
Conference Committee." [1984]
Baijent, Nick:
"Choice of Subsets: Comment..."
[undated]
"Some Reservations on Strictly
Majoritarian Social Choice." [undated]
Baldwin, Robert E. "Rent-Seeking and
Trade Policy." [1984]
Banks, Jeffrey. "Monopoly Agenda
Control." [1987]
Banks, Jeffrey S. and Calvert,
Randall L. "Communication and Efficiency."
[1988]
Barzel, Yoram:
"An Economic Analysis of Slavery."
[1977]
"Measurement Cost and the
Organization of Markets." [1981]
"A Positive Theory of Allocating
Resources by Voting." [1984]
Barzel, Yoram and Kochin, Lewis.
"The Problem of Social Cost." [1985]
Bates, Robert H. "The Agrarian
Origins of Mau-Mau." [undated]
Bates, Robert H. and Lien, Donald.
"On Operations of the International Coffee."
[1985]
Bates, Robert H. and Lien, Donald.
"The Problem of United States Entry." [1989]
Bates, Robert H. and Rogerson,
William P. "Agriculture in Development." [1980]
Becker, Gary S.:
"Public Policies, Pressure."
[1985]
"A Theory of Competition."
[1983]
Benham, Lee and Keefer, Philip. "How
Diverse Organizations Survive." [1985 Oct. 18]
Berg, Joyce E., Dickhart, J., and
Senkow, D. "Signalling Equilibrium." [1987]
Bierstekes, Thomas J. "Reducing the
Role of the State in the Economy." [1986?]
Binder, John J. "The Sherman
Anti-Trust Act and the Railroad Cartels." [1986-
draft]
Binmore, Ken and Samuelson, Larry.
"Evolutionary Stability in Repeated Games."
[undated]
Bittlingmayer, George. "The
Economics of a Simple Airline." [1985]
Bliss, Robert R., Jr. and Ronn, Ehud
I. "Arbitrage-Based Estimation." [Revised 1988]
Bowler, Shaun and Farrell, David M.
"Voter Choices in Complex." [undated]
Boyd, Robert and Lorberbaum,
Jeffrey. "No Pure Strategy is Evolutionarily Stable." [1987
- draft]
Boyd, Robert and Richerson, Peter J.
"The Evolution of Reciprocity in Sizeable Groups." [1987 -
draft]
Boyer, George R. "What Did Unions Do
in 19th Century Britain?" [1987]
Brady, David and Epstein, David.
"Intra-Party Preferences, Heterogeneity, and..." [undated]
Bredahl, Maury, Shmitz, Andrew,and
Hillman, Jimmye S. "Rent Seeking in International Trade..."
[1987]
Brody, Richard A. "Daily News and
the Dynamic of Public Support for the President."
[1986]
Camerer, Colin. "Do Biases in
Probability Judgement Matter in Markets?" [1987 - sixth
draft]
Camerer, Colin, Lowenstein, and
Weber. "The Curses of Knowledge in Economic Settings."
[1987 - second draft]
Campbell, Claudia Ruth. "Deposit
Insurance and Risk Exposure in Commercial Banks."
[undated]
Campbell, Donald E.:
"Arrow's Theorem for Economic
Environments." [1987]
"Continuous Preferences and
Arrow's Independence Axiom." [1987]
"Wilson's Theorem for Economic
Environments." [1987]
Carhill, Mike. "The Dual-Decision
Hypothesis in Light of Recent Developments." [1987 -
draft]
Caskey, John. "Latin American Debt
Restructurings and the IMF." [1987]
Chatterjee, Kalyan and Samuelson,
William. "Bargaining Under Incomplete Information."
[1983]
Cheung, Steven N.S. "Transaction
Costs, Risk Aversion, and the Choice..."
[undated]
Cho, Shin. "Control over Management
Through Concentrated Ownership." [1988]
Clark, Gregory. "Why Isn't The Whole
World Developed?" [1986]
Coase, R. H. "The Problem of Social
Cost." [1960 Oct.]
Coleman, Jules:
"A Bargaining Theory Approach..."
[undated]
"Competition and Cooperation..."
[1987]
Cook, Richard E:
"The Effectiveness of Insider
Trading Regulation." [1987]
"Proposal: The Regulation..."
[1987 Sept. 12]
Cox, Donald C. "Motives for Private
Income Transfers." [1985]
Cox, Donald and Nye, John Vincut.
"Male-Female Wage Discrimination..." [1986]
Crouzet, Francois. "Second Thoughts
About a Comparison: Britain and France..."
[1987]
Fogel, Robert William. "Nutrition
and the Decline in Mortality..." [1985]
Gately, Dermot. "Sharing the Gains
from Customs Unions..." [1974]
Grofman, Bernard and Scarrow, Howard
A. "The Riddle of Apportionment..." [1981]
Harley, C. Knick. "Prerequisites to
Industrialization..." [1988]
Hart, Keith. "Rural-Urban Migration
in West Africa." [1987 Jan. 13]
Knight, J.B. and Sabot, R.H. "Lewis
Through a Looking Glass." [1988]
Kochan, Thomas A. and Bazerman, Max
H. "Macro Determinants of the Future..." [1986]
Kochin, Lewis H. "The Problem of
Social Cost and the Transaction Costs..."
[1986]
Kuran, Timur. "Moral Overload and
Its Alleviation." [Revised 1996]
Lee, Dwight R. and Sandler, Todd.
"On the Optimal Retaliation Against Terrorists." [Revised
1988]
Libecap, Gary D. "Bureaucratic
Opposition to the Assignment of Property Rights..."
[1981]
North, Douglass C.:
"Agenda for a History of
Management, Policies Towards Labor in the U.S."
[undated]
"Agriculture in Regional Economic
Growth." [1959]
"Capital Formation in the United
States..." [1962, revised 1966]
"Commentary on: 'A Problem of
People.' [Rabushka]" [undated]
"Comments on Stuart Bruchey's
Paper." [1964]
"Comments on William Riker, 'The
Lessons of 1787.'" [1986]
[Comments on Seavoy manuscript.]
[1986]
"Early National Income Estimates
of the U.S." [1961]
"Economic History." [International
Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences] [1968]
"Economies of the U.S.
Constitution." [1986]
"Entrepreneurial Policy and
Internal Organization in the Large Life Insurance
Companies..." [1953]
"Foreword." [to volume of essays
from 1984 Lafayette College Conference] [undated -
conference 1984 Apr.]
"Government and the Cost of
Exchange in History." [1984 June]
"The Growth of Government in the
U.S." [1985]
"Ideology and Political/Economic
Institutions." [1988]
"Industrialization in the United
States 1815-60." [1960]
"Institutional Change and Economic
Growth." [1971]
Box 7
Outline of "Institutions..."
[draft - 1985 Feb. 19]
"Institutions and Credible
Commitment." [1993]
"Institutions and Economic
Growth..." [1987]
"Institutions and Exchange."
[chapter] [undated]
"Institutions, Economic Growth,
and Freedom..." [1986]
"Institutions, Ideology, and
Economic Performance." [1992]
"Institutions, Transaction Costs,
and Economic Growth." [1987 July and undated drafts] (2
folders)
"Integrating Transaction Costs
into Economic History." [undated]
"International Capital Flows and
the Development of the American West." [1956]
"International Capital Movements
in Historical Perspective." [1962]
"Is It Worth Making Sense of
Marx?" [1985]
"Law, Property Rights, Legal
Institutions and the Performance of Economies."
[undated]
"Location Theory and Regional
Economic Growth." [1955]
"Markets and Other Allocation
Systems in History..." [undated]
"Marx, Rostow, and History."
[undated]
"Measuring the Transaction
Sector..." [draft - 1983]
"The New Economic History..."
[1977]
"The New Economies of Institutions
and Organization..." [1986]
"The New Institutional Economics."
[1986 and drafts]
"The Next 25 Years of Public
Choice." [25th Anniversary Special Issue] [1993
Spring]
"The Political Economy of Poverty,
Equity, and Growth." [World Bank Proposal,
1985-1986]
"Privatization, Incentives, and
Economic Performance." [undated]
[Review of Witold Kula, Measures
and Men.] [1986]
"Three Approaches to the Study of
Institutions." [undated]
"A Transaction Cost Approach..."
[undated]
"Transaction Costs in History."
[1985]
"Transaction Costs, Institutions,
and Economic History." [1984]
North, Douglass C., Barzel, Yoram,
and Harder, Virgil. "Marine Fuel Tax Refund Study."
[1966]
North, Douglass C. and Davis, Lance.
"Institutional Change and American Economic Growth."
[1969]
North, Douglass C. and Heston, Alan.
"The Estimation of Shipping Earnings in Historical Studies
of the Balance of Payments." [1960]
North, Douglass C., Milgrom, Paul
B., and Weingast, Barry R. "Third Party Enforcement of
Norms and Contracts." [1988]
North, Douglass C. and Tiebout,
Charles. "Exports and Regional Economic Growth; A Reply
[North] and A Rejoinder." [1956]
North, Douglass C. and Thomas,
Robert Paul. "An Economic Theory of the Growth of the
Western World." [1970]
North, Douglass C. and Wallis,
John:
"Integrating Transaction Costs
into Economic History." [draft, 1986]
"Integrating Transaction Costs
into Economic History." [revisions, 1987]
"Measuring the Transaction
Sector." [North 1983, North and Wallis 1983-1985] (3
folders)
North, Douglass C. and Weingast,
Barry R.:
"Constitutions and Commitment."
[undated]
"The New Economics of
Institutions." [undated]
[North?] "Comment on Productivity,
Growth, Convergence, and Welfare." [undated]
Pashigian, B. Peter:
"The Political Economy of Futures
Market Regulation." [1986]
"Why Have Some Farmers Opposed
Futures Markets?" [1988]
Posner, Richard A. "A Theory of
Primitive Society." [undated]
Schweitzer, Mary M.:
"American Economic Policy and the
Economic Origins of the American Constitution." (working
chapter outline") [undated]
"Property Values and Population
Density in Federalist Philadelphia." [undated]
Scully, Gerald W. "The Institutional
Framework and Economic Development." [1988]
Shepsle, Kenneth A. and Weingast,
Barry R. "Political Solutions to Market Problems."
[1984]
Solow, Robert S. "Economic History
and Economics." [1985 May]
Spiller, Pablo T. "Politicians,
Interest Groups, and Regulators." [1988 Mar. 1]
Sutch, Richard C. "The Profitability
of Antebellum Slavery Revisited." [undated]
Tilly, Charles. "The Historical
Study of Vital Processes." [undated]
Umbeck, John. "Might Makes Rights."
[1981]
Weingast, Barry R. and Marshall,
William J. "The Industrial Organization of Congress."
[1988]
The Emergence of Social, Political,
and Economic Institutions
Charge to Working Groups, 1st
Statement/Preliminary comments on charge by participants,
1985 and undated
Correspondence, 1984-1985,
Comments of Committee Members,
1985
ESPI - Draft 1 of Report to Common
Basic Research, 1985 June 4
ESPI Draft - Revision 2,
1985
ESPI Final Draft, 1985 July
31
Participant list
Preliminary comments and
contributions by participants, 1985 and undated
Conferences and Seminars Series, 1963, 1975-1997
Lecture notes, drafts, correspondence,
programs, brochures, and schedules related to conferences
and seminars attended by North, who was most often a
participant as well. Arranged chronologically.
Box 8
1963 Sept., Conference on Research
in Income and Wealth, UNC-CH
1975 Dec. 28, "The Blind Man and the
Elephant" AHA Meetings, Atlanta
1975, Exports and Growth
Conference
1978 Aug. 13-19, "Seventh
International Economic History Congress,"
Edinburgh
1979 Oct. 4, Austrian Economic
Association
1980 Jan. 4, AAAS Meeting Symposium:
"New Approaches to Explaining Cultural
Complexity"
1980 July 7-17, Liberty Fund Series
Conference on "Rationality, Ideology, and
Individuality"
1980 Sept. 21-24, Liberty Fund: "The
Political Economy of the Transfer Society"
1981 Apr. 19, Talk at George Mason
University
1981 Apr. 30-May 2, Cliometrics
Conference
1981 June 25-27, Conference at
Memorial University of Newfoundland
1981 Visit to Herman Wold -
University of Sweden/University of Geneva
1983 Feb. 1, "The Growth of
Government"
1983 June 7-10, Seminar on New
Institutional Economics
1983 Sept. 3, APSA Meeting,
Chicago
1983 Sept. 23-25, Economic History
Association annual meeting
1983 Sept., "Government and the
Costs of Exchange in History": EHA Meeting
1983 Oct. 25-27, Conference on
Federal Regulation, Free Trade, Protection
1983 Nov. 1, Conference: "Spatial
and Temporal Trends and Cycles in Chinese Economic
History"
1983 Nov. 4, Talk in
Chicago
1983 Nov. 10-11, University of
Illinois lectures
1983 Nov. 11, Economic History and
Comparative Systems Workshop
1984 Jan. 5, Bellagio Conference on
Chinese History
1984 Jan. 30, "Political Economy in
Historical Perspective" WU Assembly Lecture
1984 Feb. 1, University of Minnesota
AG/Econ Seminar
1984 Feb. 14-15, Washington
University Alumni Association and Law and Lib.
1984 Feb. 17, University of Indiana
talk
1984, Spring Seminar
Schedules
1984 Mar. 22-24, "Conference on
Research in Income and Wealth"
1984 Mar. 29-31, Public Choice
Meetings
1984 Apr. 6-8, Emory University: Law
and Economics of Immigration Policy
1984 Apr. 26, Panel, Brown
University: "Theoretical Perspectives on States and
Markets"
1984 Apr. 27-28, Providence Seminar,
Lafayette College Seminar
1984 Apr. 30, "Economic Issues in
Historical Perspective" lecture
1984 May 2-3, "Politics and
Governance in Market Economies" conference
1984 May 9, Knox College
Seminar
1984 May 11, Greater Chicago
Economic History Dinner
1984 May 13-15, Henry R. Luce
Professors Symposium
1984 May 18, Cliometrics Conference,
Cincinnati, Ohio
1984 July 28-Aug. 18, Conference on
Rationality and Collective Action
1984 Aug. 15-17, Nobel Symposium:
"Growth of Government"
1984 Aug., Bellagio and Nobel
Conferences
1984 Sept. 7-15, Conference on
Markets and History
1984 Sept. 9-13, Liberty Fund
symposium: "Freedom and the History of Markets"
1984 Sept. 21-22, Economic History
Association Meetings
1984 Oct. 22, Asociacion Argentina
De Historia Economica: Annual Meeting
1985 Jan. 17-20, American Liberty
and Modern Republics, Houston, Tex.
1985 Feb. 6, Mancur Olson lecture at
Washington University
1985 Feb. 12, "The Economy's
Evolution and Its Effects on Work," Meramec
College
1985 Feb. 21-23, Public Choice
Society Annual Meeting, New Orleans
1985 Mar. 28-30, Rise and Decline of
Nations, University of Victoria
1985 Apr. 12, Political Economy
Seminar, Williams College
1985 Apr. 12-14, Conference on
Finance, Trade and Development, London
1985 May 11, Agency for
International Development (AID)
1985 June 12-14, International
Seminar on the New Institutional Economics,
Saarbrucken
1985 July 15-20, The State in the
New Political Economy: 13th IPSA World Congress,
Paris
1985 Oct., Freedom and Liberty
Conference, Washington University
1985 Oct. 9, Economics Department at
St. John's University Conferences and Seminars
Box 9
1985 Oct. 11, "The Rise of Merchant
Empires," University of Minnesota
1985 Oct. 24-26, Liberty Fund
Conference, Washington University, St. Louis
1985 Nov. 14-17, Hernando de Soto,
Lima, Peru
1985 Nov. 21-24, Social Science
History Association, Chicago
1985 Nov., "The New Institutional
Economics in Historical Perspective"
1985 Dec. 18-21, The World Bank:
"Political Economy of Poverty, Equity, and Growth," Cancun,
Mexico
1985 Dec., Harvard Comments:
"Ongoing Research on Institutional Change"
1986 Jan. 30, University of
California, San Diego
1986 Feb. 11, James Roumasset
Seminar on Tenure Choice, Washington University, St.
Louis
1986 Feb. 13-15, "Why International
Rules, Norms, and Institutions Change," Harvard
University
1986 Spring, Murphy
Institute
1986 Mar. 21-23, Association for
Asian Studies, Chicago
1986 Mar. 27-28, "Historical Data
and Theories of Rational Choice," Rutgers and Penn
Talks
1986 Mar., "The Origin of Modern
Economic Growth"
1986 Apr. 3, Economics, Southwest
Missouri State
1986 Apr. 8, "A Comment on Robert
Tollison's 'Rent-Seeking.'"
1986 Apr. 9, "Towards a Freer
Society." (on Tullock), Liberty Fund, Williamsburg,
Va.
1986 Apr. 24, University of Montreal
talk
1986 May, Stockholm School of
Economics
1986 May 2-3, Carnegie Mellon
Conference on Political Economy
1986 May 6, Gary Becker - Workshop
on Political Economy, Washington University, St.
Louis
1986 July 14-19, Liberty Fund
Conference, Clemson, SC
1986 Sept. 11-13, Liberty Fund
Symposium, Center for the Study of American Business,
Washington University, St. Louis
1986 Sept. 17, "The Path of
Institutional Change," Luce Lecture, Washington University,
St. Louis
1986 Sept. 26-28, Economic History
Association, Hartford, Conn.
1986 Oct. 5-8, "On Friedman's
Capitalism and Freedom" Symposium on Economic, Political,
and Civil Freedom, Napa Valley, Calif.
1986 Nov. 6-7, Northwest and
Chicago
1986 Nov. 7, "Institutions, Economic
Growth, and Freedom," Chicago Workshop
1986 Nov. 14-15, "Institutions and
Economic Growth." Role of Institutions in Economic
Development, Cornell University
1986 Nov. 21-22, PERC/Liberty Fund
colloquium: "The Moral and Ethical Basis for Economic
Growth," Denver, Colo.
1986 Dec. 28-30, Allied Social
Science Associations Annual Meeting, New
Orleans
1986 AEA Conference: "The New
Political Economic History"
1987 Mar. 19-21, Conference on
Political Economy and Business, Washington University, St.
Louis
1987 Apr. 8-11, Midwest Political
Science Association Annual Meeting, Chicago
1987 Apr. 23-26, Liberty Fund
Symposium: "Taxation, Democracy, and Threats to Liberty,"
Savannah, Ga.
1987 June, Workshop on the Economics
of Institutional Choice and Design, University of
Economics, Vienna, Austria
1987 Aug. - Sept., Unfree Labor
Conference, Memorial University of Newfoundland
1987 Oct., Essay for "The Rise of
Merchant Empires" conference
1987 Oct., "The Rise of Merchant
Empires," University of Minnesota
1987 Nov. 13-15, Conference on
Knowledge and Institutional Change, University of
Minnesota
1988 June 8-10, New Institutional
Economics Seminar
1988 Oct. 12, Conference on Economic
Development and the Law, Ramapo College, NJ
1988 Oct. 21, Sequoia
Institute
1988 Oct. 21, Institutions of
Democracy and Development Seminar
1988 Oct. 24-25, Instituto
Tecnologico Autonomo de Mexico
1988 Nov. 2-5, History of Freedom
Conference
1988 Nov. 3, Columbia University
talk
1988 Nov. 5, American Academy of
Arts and Sciences, Midwest Section, Chicago
1988 Nov. 21, University of
Illinois-Champaign talk
1988 Dec. 28-30, AEA Meeting
1989 Feb. 1-4, Towards a Scientific
Analysis of Value, Tucson, Ariz.
1989 Feb. 17, AID Conference:
"Informality and Economic Institutional Reform"
1989 Mar. 28-30, Lecture/Talk at
Rice University
1989 Apr. 20-23, "Liberty and the
Economic Consequences of the French Revolution"
1989 May 15-20, Liberty Fund Summer
Series, University of Victoria
1989 June 22, The Economic Role of
the State, Amsterdam
1989 June 24-27, The Second World
Congress of Cliometrics
1989 Aug. 21-25, Sweden Lectures
1989 Sept. 14, Rochester
Box 10
1989 Sept. 15-16, "Government and
Growth"
1989 Oct. 23-27, Texas A and M,
Kirby Distinguished Professorship
1989 Nov. 3, Cornell
Colloquium
1989 Fall, Hernreich Chair in
International Economics recruiting committee
1990 Feb. 15, Yale
Conference
1990 Mar. 25-27, The Global
Marketplace - National Conference of Editorial Writers,
Washington University at St. Louis
1990 Apr. 12-13, Ohio University
lecture
1990 Apr. 27-29, "Revenue Extraction
and the Institutionalization of the State," University of
Washington
1990 Oct. 12-13, Symposium:
"Capitalism and Social Progress" at the University of
Virginia
1990 Dec. 7, Washington Area
Economic History Seminar
1991 Jan. 30, University Lecture:
"The Unmaking of the Communist Revolution"
1991 Feb. 15, UCLA talk
1991 Mar. 1-3, Fogel Conference:
"Strategic Factors in 19th Century U.S. Economic History"
1991 May 23-25, Political Economy
Conference
1991 June 16-19, IAREP/SASE
Conference at Stockholm School of Economics
1991 Sept. 9-10, [Conference on
privatization], Kiel, Germany
1991 Sept. 27-29, Economic History
Association Annual Meeting - Boulder, Colo.
1991 Nov. 8-10, "Workshop on
Institutional Theory in the Social Sciences"
1991 Nov. 14-15, Yale University
Conference
1991 Nov. 21, Dinner Talk Arts and
Sciences Council on Soviet Union
1991, World Bank - World Development
Report
1992 Jan. 3-5, AEA
Meetings
1992 Feb. 26-27, NSF Workshop on the
Politics of Economic Reform in the Former Communist-Bloc
States at UCLA (2 folders)
1992 Mar. 6-8, African
Conference
1992 Mar. 10, Talk at UC
Riverside
1992 Mar. 12, Talk at Berkeley: "A
Transaction Cost Theory of Politics"
1992 Mar. 13-14, Conference:
"Credible Commitment and Institutions"
1992 Mar. 26, Talk - Eastern Europe
Economies
1992 Apr. 8-10, "Explaining Economic
Growth"
1992 June, 10th International
Institutional Conference
1992 Aug. 10, AFEA talk: Bellagio
paper
1992 Sept. 3-6, APSA Meeting - Round
Table on Elinor Ostrom
1992 Sept. 16-18, Evaluation of
Emory University Economics Department
1992 Oct. 17, "Talk to Executive
Institute"
1992 Fall, Executive Institute:
"Global Connections and Conflict"
1992 Oct. 30, University of Illinois
talks
1992 Nov. 8-9, "The Role of
Technology in Economics"
1992 Dec. 4-5, Wallis Institute of
Political Economy conference
1993 Feb. 5, University of
Pittsburgh
1993 Feb. 5-6, "Regulation,
Institutions, and the Performance of Telecom
Utilities"
1993 Mar. 19-21, "The Public Choice
Society Annual Meetings"
1993 Apr. 8-10, Cornell
Visit
1993 May 23-27, World Productivity
Congress, Stockholm
1993 July 30-31, American Academy of
Arts and Sciences - Social Capital and Economic Development
Workshop
1993 Aug. 19-21, Arne Ryde Symposium
on The Economic Analysis of Law
1993 Sept. 17-19, "Third World
Economic History/Development Group" - London
1993 Sept. 16-18, World Bank
Conference on Public Choice and Development,
London
1993 Oct. 1-3, The Economic History
Association Fifty-Third Annual Meeting
1993 Oct. 4-5, System Committee on
International Economic Analysis, St. Louis
1993 Oct. 17, "The Second Economic
Revolution," Samara/St. Louis Sister City Visit
1993 Nov. 11-12, Workshop in
Political Theory and Policy Analysis - Colloquium, Indiana
University
1993 Nov. 18-21, Rating Economic
Freedom VI - Liberty Fund/Fraser Institute Colloquium,
Sonoma, Calif.
Box 11
1994 Feb. 18, World Bank
Talk
1994 Feb. 22, Economic Problems and
Economic Analysis, Round Table, St. Louis
1994 Mar. 17, UNC Political Economy
Working Group, Chapel Hill
1994 Mar. 25, USAID, Washington
DC
1994 Mar. 25, American Economic
Association Nominating Committee Meeting, Washington
DC
1994 Apr. 1, UC San
Diego
1994 Apr. 14-15, John M. Olin
Lecture Series, Lafayette College
1994 Apr. 29, Rochester Institute of
Technology, William D. Gasser Lectureship
1994 May 2-3, Stockholm School of
Economics
1994 May 13-15, Conference on New
Institutionalization in Economic Sociology,
Cornell
1994 May 16, Sunday Times Nobel
Prizewinners Lecture Series, London
1994 May 16-21, Dublin,
Ireland
1994 May 26, Transaction Cost
Economics, Paris
1994 June, Buenos Aires
1994 June 2-5, PERC Political
Economy Forum: The Privatization Process,
Montana
1994 June 5-8, University of
Washington, Seattle
1994 June 22-23, Location
Competition in the World Economy, Kiel Week Conference,
Kiel, Germany
1994 June 26-28, Premi de Economia,
"Rey Jaime I," Valencia, Spain
1994 Aug. 2-6, Visit to
Brazil
1994 Aug. 21-27, International
Association for Research in Income and Wealth, St. Andrews,
Canada
1994 Sept. 12-17, International
Congress of Economic History, Milan
1994 Sept. 19, Scale and Scope in a
Globalizing Environment, Graningen, Netherlands
1994 Sept. 27, Adam Smith Lecture,
National Association of Business Economists
1994 Sept. 20 - Oct. 1, MacArthur
Foundation Meeting, Chicago
1994 Oct., Path Dependence, Columbia
University
1994 Oct. 6-8, Economic History
Association, Cincinnati, Ohio
1994 Oct. 13-16, Social Science
History Association Meeting, Atlanta, Ga.
1994 Oct. 14-15, "What Is
Institutionalism Now?" University of Maryland, College
Park
1994 Oct. 25-26, Trinity University,
San Antonio, Tex.
1994 Oct. 28, "Institutions and
Public Policy," St. Norbert College, Des Pere, Wis.
1994 Nov. 21, Business History
Seminar, Harvard University
1994 Nov. 29, Dec. 5, Japan, Nobel
Symposium
1995 Jan., Methodology Session - AEA
Meeting, Washington, DC
1995 Jan. 6, AEA Meeting,
Washington, DC
1995 Feb. 3, Political Economy
Lecture Series, Harvard University
1995 Feb. 17, Texas A and M
University Student Conference on National
Affairs
1995 Mar. 6-12, Chinese University
of Hong Kong and Peking University, Beijing
1995 Mar. 17-19, Frontiers of
Economics, Washington University in St. Louis
1995 Mar. 31, Apr. 1, Clemson
University
1995 Apr. 6, Economic Performance
Through Time, Malim Harding Visitorship Lecture, University
of Toronto
1995 Apr. 21, Penn State Conference
Series, University Park, Pa.
1995 Apr. 27, Choate Rosemary
Hall
1995 May 24-28, IASCP World
Conference, Bodo, Norway
1995 May 29, Industrial Institute
for Economic Research, Stockholm
1995 June 21-24, Universidad
Nacional Andres Bello, Santiago, Chile
1995 June 26-27, Nobel Lecture: "The
Institutional Framework for Economic
Development"
1995 June 25, July 1, Instituto
Apoyo, Peru
1995 Aug. 26, Sept. 1, Santa Fe
Institute Conference
1995 Oct. 4-6, St. Louis, Inaugural
Symposium
1995 Oct. 11, Departmental Seminar
[Economics], UC Berkeley
1995 Oct. 27-29, Economy of Early
British America, Huntington Library, Calif.
1995 Nov. 1, Stanford
Workshop
1995 Nov. 17-18, Institutional
Framework and Economic Performance - OECD,
Paris
1996 Jan. 23, "Institutions,
Technology, and Economic Growth" - talk at
Stanford
1996 Mar. 31, Apr. 2, Association of
Private Enterprise Education, Las Vegas, Nev.
1996 Apr. 3-4, UC Santa Barbara
(lecture and visit)
1996 Apr. 15, Austrian Economics
Colloquium, New York University
1996 Apr. 17, Henry George Lecture,
St. John's University, Queens, NY
1996 Apr. 22-24, UNC-Greensboro
visit
1996 Apr. 21-24, "Order, Disorder,
and Economic Change," UNC-Greensboro visit
1996 May 3, UCSD Colloquium on
Political Reasoning
1996 May 20-30, Judge Institute
Visit, Cambridge University
1996 June 2-5, Schumpeter Society
Conference
1996 June 20-22, Liberty Fund
Conference on Property Rights
1996 Aug. 7-9, "On the Conditions
for Innovation and Growth" conference
1996 Dec. 5-7, Kenan Institute
workshop: "Civil Society, Social Capital, and Development
in Eurasia"
1997 Mar. 4-9, Helsinki UNO/WIDER
conference
1997 Mar. 20, Lecture at Queen's
University
1997 Mar., WIDER annual lectures
delivered
1997 Apr. 2, Lecture at University
of Pennsylvania
1997 Apr. 4, Lecture at University
of Akron
1997 Apr. 9-11, Lecture at
TCU
Box 12
1997 June 13-14, "Economic Growth
and Market Institutions in Historical Perspective,"
Moscow
1997 June, Italy, accepted
invitations
1997 Aug., APSA meeting
1997 Aug., APSA meeting, Cognitive
Science panel
1997 Sept. 26, Lecture at Middlebury
College
1997, International Society for
NIE
undated, "The Past and Future of
Economic History" talk
undated, "Shared Mental
Models"
undated, "The Lessons of 1787" -
Riker 12
Course Materials Series, 1982-1994 and undated
Chiefly contains syllabi and other
organizational materials for courses taught by Professor
North primarily at Washington University. Arranged
chronologically.
Box 12
1980, Econ. 504
1982, Econ. 556A - IO
1983, Econ. 561
1983, Course listings
1984, Econ. 220B: Survey of Economic
History
1984, Econ. 457: Theory of Property
Rights
1984, Econ. 555
1985, Econ. 220B: Survey of Economic
History
1985, Econ. 458: Theory of Property
Rights
1986, Econ. 220B: Survey of Economic
History
1986, Econ. 458: Theory of Property
Rights
1986, Polit. Econ. 498: Senior
Seminar
(2
folders)
1987, Econ. 458: Theory of Property
Rights
1987, Political Economy course
listings
1988, Economic Behavior and
Institutions
1989, Econ. 220: Survey of Economic
History
1990-1994 and undated, U.S. Business
School in Prague: Reports, correspondence, and course
materials
1994, Econ. 326: American Economic
History
undated, Econ. 597 and
598
Addition (2008-0109), 1950-2006 and undated
43 Boxes
Addition contains reprints, writings, conference and seminar files, correspondence, and other general office files. Also included are book contracts, course materials, and files related to North's involvement with the Commission on Civil Rights.
[RESTRICTION: Contains letters of recommendation and student records. Patrons must
sign an Acknowledgment of Legal Responsibilities and
Privacy Rights form before using this collection. Contact
Research Services.]
Reprints, circa 1950s-1980s
Reprints of journal articles, book chapters, and other published material by Douglass North and other authors. North reprints are arranged by title, other reprints arranged alphabetically by author.
Box 13
Douglass North reprints, A-L, 1950s-1980s
Box 14
Douglass North reprints, M-Z, 1950s-1980s
Box 15
A-B
Box 16
B-D
Box 17
D-F
Box 18
F-G
Box 19
G-I
Box 20
J-L
Box 21
L-M
Box 22
N-P
Box 23
R-S
Box 24
S-V
Box 25
W-Z
Miscellaneous papers and articles, 1970s-1980s
A-H
Box 27
H-Z
Conferences and Seminars, 1997-2002
Files related to conferences and seminars of interest to North, many of which he attended. Arranged chronologically.
Box 28
1997-1998
Box 29
1998
Box 30
1998-1999
Box 31
1999-2000
Box 32
2000
Box 33
2000-2001
Box 34
2001
Box 35
2001-2002
Box 36
1999-2002
Writings, 1983-2005 and undated
Chiefly unpublished or draft versions of professional papers by various authors. Arranged chronologically.
Box 37
1983 and undated
Box 38
1985-1996
Box 39
1986-1989 and undated
Box 40
1986-2005 and undated
Box 41
1988-1990s and undated
Box 42
1990-1996
Box 43
1997
Box 44
1999-2003 and undated
General Office Files (RESTRICTED), 1990-2001 and undated
Office files maintained by North include recommendations, notes on book projects, and some correspondence. Files are loosely arranged by date.
Box 45
1990-1998
Box 46
1997-2001 and undated
Box 47
1997-2001 and undated
Box 48
1997-1998
Other Files, 1990-2001 and undated
Files include course materials for courses taught by North; selected professional correspondence; files on book contracts, royalties, and publishers; files related to North's involvement in the Commission on Civil Rights; and printed email correspondence.
Box 48
Course materials, 1991-1998
Box 49
Student papers and exams (RESTRICTED), 1987-1989
Box 50
Professional correspondence, 1950-1984
Royalty statements, 1961-1975
Box 51
Book contracts and publisher information, 1960-1970s
Box 52
Publisher information, 1960s-1970s
Commission on Civil Rights files, 1970s-1980s
Box 53
Email correspondence, 2000-2006
Box 54
Miscellaneous files, 1960s-1980s
Box 55
Miscellaneous files, 1960s-1990s
