2017/

1-2

ISBN 978-88-8368-164-6

Pag. 3-

6

, DOI 10.17426/36331

Keywords: Institutions; Economic History; New Institutional Economics; Social History; Social Sciences

The awarding of the Nobel prize to Douglass C. North – together with Robert W. Fogel – in 1993 had a double effect. On the one hand, it contributed significantly to the legitimacy of the economic history as a fi