Institutions, Institutional Change and Economic Performance

DouglassC.NorthisDirectoroftheCenterofPoliticalEconomyandProfessorofEconomicsandHistoryatWashingtonUniversityinSt.Louis.HeisapastpresidentoftheEconomicHistoryAssociationandWesternEconomicsAssociationandaFellow,AmericanAcademyofArtsandSciences.HehaswrittenoversixtyarticlesforavarietyofjournalsandistheauthorofTheRiseoftheWesternWorld:ANewEconomicHistory(CUP,1973,withR.P.Thomas)andStructureandChangeinEconomicHistory(Norton,1981).ProfessorNorthisincludedinGreatEconomistsSinceKeyneseditedbyM.Blaug(CUP,1988paperbacked.)