Professor Douglass North FBA

Fellow type
International Fellow
Year elected
1996
Year of birth
1920
Year of death
2015
Honours
FBA

Current post

Professor of Economics, Washington University, St Louis

Other Fellows of the British Academy

Professor Stephen Broadberry FBA

Economic history; development of the world economy since AD 1000; the Great Divergence; international comparisons of productivity; wars and economic performance

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Professor Mark Casson FBA

Economics of business: theories of entrepreneurship and international business, with historical applications to medieval towns and industries, Victorian railways and twentieth-century multinational firms

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Professor Colin Mayer FBA

Financial economics; corporate finance, corporate governance, regulation, taxation, and international comparisons of financial systems; the role of the corporation in contemporary society

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