CNISS hosted this event to honor the important work and legacy of Douglass North, co-recipient of the 1993 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences. The event featured some of the most prominent social scientists in the country who presented their research, as well as an update of the state of the social sciences. Pictured to the right are Matt Drobak, alum of Washington University, Douglass North, and John Drobak, George Alexander Madill Professor of Law and Professor of Economics and Political Economy at Washington University.
The conference was generously sponsored by:
The Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation
The Center for New Insitutional Social Sciences
The Center for the Interdisciplinary Study or Work and Social Capital at
the Washington University School of Law
Scott and Joanne Simowitz
The Office of the Dean of the Faculty of Arts & Sciences
The Department of Economics
American Culture Studies
The Weidenbaum Center on the Economy, Government, and Public Policy
For video interviews from the conference, please visit
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SZJPIr8Q-Xs
For video from the keynote address and the roundtable, please visit:
http://www.youtube.com/user/CNISSwashingtonuniv
If you are interested in obtaining complete conference video footage, please send an email to cniss@artsci.wustl.edu
For information on the North Research Fund, please visit:
http://cniss.wustl.edu/research/projects
Conference Participant Biographies
CONFERENCE PAPERS
Institutions and Sustainability of Ecological Systems 
Elinor Ostrom, Indiana University, co-recipient of the 2009 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences (pictured right)
Using Economic Experiments to Measure Informal Institutions
Pam Jakiela, Washington University in St. Louis
From the Wheel to the Idea Economy: Intellectual Property Rights and Prosperity
Saul Levmore, University of Chicago Law School
The Contribution of Douglass North to New Institutional Economics
Claude Menard, Centre D'Economie de la Sorbonne at the University of Paris-Pantheon Sorbonne
Mary Shirley, Ronald Coase Institute
The Rules of the Game: What Rules? Which Game?
Kenneth Shepsle, Harvard University
Culture, Institutions, and Modern Growth
Joel Mokyr, Northwestern University
Robert Bates, Harvard University
Endogenous Institutions: Law as a Coordinating Device
Gillian K. Hadfield, University of Southern California Law and Economics Department and
Barry R. Weingast, Hoover Institution and Departmetn of Political Science, Stanford University
Persistence and Change in Institutions: the Evolution of Douglass C. North
John Joseph Wallis, University of Maryland
The Grand Experiment That Wasn't? New Institutional Economics and Postcommuist Experience
Scott Gehlbach, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Edmund Malesky, University of California-San Diego
William Marshall, University of North Carolina Law School
What Really Happened During the Glorious Revolution?
Steven C.A. Pincus and James A. Robinson
Power, Beliefs, and Institutions: Understanding Development in the Modern World
Lee Alston, University of Colorado-Boulder and NBER
Resource Allocation, Transaction Costs and Land Property Rights
Sebastian Galiani, Washington University in St. Louis
Ernesto Schargrodsky, Universidad Torcuato Di Tella
Legal Origin or Colonial History?
Daniel Klerman, USC Law School
Paul Mahoney, University of Virginia Law School
Holger Spamann, Harvard Law School
Mark Weinstein, USC Marshall School of Business
Experimental Evidence on the Workings of Democratic Institutions
Pedro Dal Bo, Brown University
For further information or to RSVP, please send an email to cniss@artsci.wustl.edu If sending an RSVP, please indicate which sessions you plan on attending.