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"In this landmark work, a Nobel Prize-winning economist develops a new way of understanding the process by which economies change. Douglass North inspired a revolution in economic history a generation ago by demonstrating that economic performance is determined largely by the kind and quality of institutions that support markets. As he showed in two now classic books that inspired the New Institutional Economics (today a subfield of economics), property rights and transaction costs are fundamental determinants. Here, North explains how different societies arrive at the institutional infrastructure that greatly determines their economic trajectories. North argues that economic change depends largely on ""adaptive efficiency,"" a society's effectiveness in creating institutions that are productive, stable, fair, and broadly accepted--and, importantly, flexible enough to be changed or replaced in response to political and economic feedback. While adhering to his earlier definition of institutions as the formal and informal rules that constrain human economic behavior, he extends his analysis to explore the deeper determinants of how these rules evolve and how economies change. Drawing on recent work by psychologists, he identifies intentionality as the crucial
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List of Columbia Law School alumni
This is a partial list of individuals who have attended Columbia Law School. For a list of individuals who have attended or taught at Columbia University, see the list of Columbia University people.
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- Franklin Delano Roosevelt (attended, fall 1904 to spring 1907)² (posthumous J.D., class of 1907),[1] 32nd President of the United States (1933–45)
- Theodore Roosevelt (attended, 1880–81)² (posthumous J.D., class of 1882),[1] 26th President of the United States (1901–09), hero of the Spanish–American War (Medal of Honor, posthumously awarded 2001), Nobel Peace Prize (1906)
Cabinet members and cabinet-level officers
[edit]- Bainbridge Colby (1891), United States Secretary of State (1920–21); founder of the Progressive Party (1912)[2]
- Antony John 'Tony' Blinken (1988), United States Secretary of State in Biden Administration (2021–), National Security Advisor to Vice PresidentJoseph Biden in the Administration of President Barack Obama (2009–17)[3]
- Jacob M. Dickinson (attended), 44th United States Secretary of War (1909–11)[4]
- James Rudolph Garfield (1888), United States Secretary of the Interior (1907
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