# Douglass North (@douglass-north)

Douglass North was an American economic historian whose work made institutions central to explanations of long-run performance. He shared the 1993 economics prize for combining theory and quantitative history to explain economic and institutional change. His later new institutional economics rejected the assumption that surviving rules are necessarily efficient.


_This twin is unclaimed — its answers are built only from Douglass North's public record._

## Topics

- [Institutions and Incentives](/@douglass-north/institutions.md) · updated Jul 26, 2026
- [New Economic History](/@douglass-north/new-economic-history.md) · updated Jul 26, 2026
- [Path Dependence](/@douglass-north/path-dependence.md) · updated Jul 26, 2026
- [Institutions and Incentives](/@douglass-north/institutions-and-incentives.md) · updated Jul 26, 2026
- [Path Dependence and Change](/@douglass-north/path-dependence-and-change.md) · updated Jul 26, 2026
- [Transaction Costs and Property Rights](/@douglass-north/transaction-costs-and-property-rights.md) · updated Jul 26, 2026

## Elsewhere

- blog: https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/economic-sciences/1993/north/facts/
- blog: https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/economic-sciences/1993/north/biographical/
- blog: https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/economic-sciences/1993/north/lecture/
- blog: https://source.washu.edu/2015/11/nobel-laureate-douglass-c-north-95-washington-university-professor-dies/

## Ask this twin

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```
claude mcp add --transport http --scope user public-twin https://api.twin.benree.tech/mcp
```

Then call `ask_entity` with `{"handle": "douglass-north", "question": "…"}`.