道格拉斯·诺思(D.G.North),美国著名经济学家和经济史学家。现年72岁,曾任美国经济史学会会长、西方经济学会会长、华盛顿大学经济系主任,1993年因“首先把现代的统计方法用于对过去的经济发展过程进行重新研究,并证明制度稳定与经济增长的关系”而与美国另一位经济学家罗伯特·福格尔共同荣获诺贝尔经济学奖。诺思在学术上的贡献和影响主要有以下几方面: D.G. North, a famous American economist and economic historian. Now 72, former president of the American Economic History Society, president of the Western Economic Association and director of the Department of Economics at the University of Washington, 1993 “first used modern statistical methods to re-examine the past economic development process and to prove that the system Stability and Economic Growth ”and won the Nobel Prize in Economics together with Robert Fogel, another U.S. economist. North's academic contribution and impact mainly in the following areas: