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Beijing Forum Kenote Speaker:
Douglass C. North
PKU NEWS 2005-11-10
http://ennews.pku.edu.cn/news.php?s=92016470
Douglass C. North is the Hoover Institution's Bartlett Burnap Senior Fellow. He
received the Nobel Prize in economics in 1993. He was elected a fellow of the British
Academy in July 1996 and was installed as the Spencer T. Olin Professor in Arts and
Sciences at Washington University in Saint Louis in October 1996.
He was appointed Luce Professor of Law and Liberty in the Department of
Economics at Washington University in the fall of 1983 and was director of the
Center in Political Economy from December 1984 through June 1990. In April 1985,
he was appointed editor of the Cambridge series of books and monographs on The
Political Economy of Institutions and Decisions.
North's appointments at Washington University in Saint Louis follow thirty-two years
at the University of Washington at Seattle, where he was director of the Institute for
Economic Research for five years and chairman for twelve years. He was the
Peterkin Professor of Political Economics at Rice University in the fall of 1979, Pitt
Professor at Cambridge University in England in 1981–82, and a visiting fellow of the
center for Advanced Studies in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University in
1987–88. He was editor of the Journal of Economic History for five years and
president of the Economic History Association in 1972. He was a twenty-year
member of the Board of Directors of the National Bureau of Economic Research until
1986.
In 1987, he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He has
lectured at most major American and European universities and many Asian
universities. He is the author of more than fifty articles and eight books.
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