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Professor Douglass North FBA

Fellow type
International Fellow
Year elected
1996
Year of birth
1920
Year of death
2015
Honours
FBA
Sections
Economics and Economic History

Current post

Professor of Economics, Washington University, St Louis

Other Fellows of the British Academy

Professor Christian List FBA

Philosophical foundations of the social sciences; political philosophy; theories of individual and collective decision-making

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Professor Roger Backhouse FBA

The history of economics, focusing on the twentieth century, including applied economics, macroeconomics, economics and the other social sciences, Maynard Keynes and Paul Samuelson

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Professor Esther Duflo FBA

The economic lives of households in poor countries: how they make decisions, what constraints they face, and how this should influence the design of policy; and the at-scale evaluation of such policies, mainly using randomized field experiments

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