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Douglass North was an American economist and economic historian whose work examined how institutions shape economic performance over long periods. He shared the 1993 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences with Robert Fogel for renewing research in economic history through economic theory and quan...
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Nobel laureate; institutional economics and economic history influence are broad, durable, and widely cited.
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Robert Fogel was an American economist and economic historian who helped establish cliometrics, the systematic use of economic theory and quantitative evidence in historical research. He shared the 1993 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences with Douglass North. His studies examined subjects incl...
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Nobel laureate; cliometrics transformed economic history, despite controversy over slavery interpretations.
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The Oxford Encyclopedia of Economic History, published by Oxford University Press in 2003, is a five-volume reference work edited by economic historian Joel Mokyr. The encyclopedia provides scholarly articles covering economic history from ancient times to the modern era, including entries on indust...
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Substantial OUP economic history reference edited by Joel Mokyr; respected breadth and contributors, specialist audience.
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Nathan Nunn is a Canadian economist whose research combines economic history, development economics, and cultural economics. He has studied how historical institutions and events continue to influence present-day economic outcomes, including work linking the African slave trades to lower levels of t...
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Major development and economic history scholar; slavery legacy and culture research highly cited, with active identification debates.
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Christina Romer is an American economist and a professor at the University of California, Berkeley, widely recognized for her extensive research on macroeconomic history. She served as the chair of the Council of Economic Advisers under President Barack Obama from 2009 to 2010, playing a key role in...
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Prominent macroeconomic historian and policy economist; Great Depression research and CEA role add influence.
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