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The New Economic History and Beyond: The Scholarship of Douglass C. North

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 August 2016

John Joseph Wallis
John Joseph Wallis*
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John Joseph Wallis is Professor of Economics, Department of Economics, University of Maryland, 3135 Tydings Hall, College Park, MD 20742 and Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. E-mail: Wallis@econ.umd.edu.
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The Journal of Economic History , Volume 76 , Issue 3 , September 2016 , pp. 937 - 947
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Footnotes

I would like to acknowledge comments and suggestions from Eric Alston, Lee Alston, Ann Carlos, Price Fishback, Naomi Lamoreaux, Paul Rhode, and Barry Weingast.

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