A lecture on “Violence and Social Orders: Where Are We Going” by economics Nobel Laureate Douglass C. North, PhD, the Spencer T. Olin Professor in Arts & Sciences, has been rescheduled for 12 noon May 3 in Room L006, Seigle Hall, Danforth Campus, Washington University.
Free and open to the public, the program is sponsored by the Center for New Institutional Social Sciences in Arts & Sciences. For more information and reservations, call CNISS at (314) 935-5068 or e-mail cniss@artsci.wustl.edu.
Co-recipient of the 1993 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, North is the author of 11 books, including his most recent, Violence and Social Orders: A Conceptual Framework for Interpreting Recorded Human History (co-authored with John Wallis, PhD, and Barry Weingast, PhD). He also is the Barlett Burnap Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University.
North’s research interests include property rights, economic organization in history and the formation of political and economic institutions and their consequences through time.