Joseph Molling with wife Margarete "Gretchen" nee Benjamin and son Peter on a walk.

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Portrait of Margarete "Gretchen" Molling nee Benjamin.

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Margarete "Gretchen" Molling nee Benjamin holding her baby son Peter Adolf Molling.

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Studio portrait of Margarete "Gretchen" Molling nee Benjamin.

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Joseph Molling with wife Margarete "Gretchen" nee Benjamin and son Peter on a walk.

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Portrait of Margarete "Gretchen" Molling nee Benjamin.

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Margarete "Gretchen" Molling nee Benjamin holding her baby son Peter Adolf Molling.

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Studio portrait of Margarete "Gretchen" Molling nee Benjamin.

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Structure and Change: Douglass North's Economics

Douglass North is a pivotal figure in the development of the 'new' economic history as well as the 'new' institutional economics. However, the relationship between these two aspects of his thinking remains undeveloped in previous critical assessments of North's work. The relationship is clarified here. The evidence presented indicates that three distinct phases can be distinguished in his writings between the 1950s and the 2000s. The paper relates these changing views to the shifting mainstream within economics and the effects that this shift has in turn had on economic history research. Economic history has adapted to economic research by abandoning some practices associated with the earlier cliometric literature. Furthermore, North is unique to the extent that his recent writings represent something of a convergence with 'old' institutionalism. © 2010 Taylor & Francis.

Letter (copy) in three sections. The first part is addressed to Henry Nelles from M. Douglass. The second part is also addressed to Henry Nelles and is signed Mr. D. The third part is addressed to Mr. Griffen from George M. Richardson

Letter (copy) in three sections (1 ½ pages, handwritten). The first part is addressed to Henry Nelles from M. Douglass in which Mr. Douglass says he has enclosed $50. This section is dated Feb. 8, 1830. The second part is also addressed to Henry Nelles and is signed Mr. D. This is the section that says “your letter has just come stating that you had received a letter but the $50 was not in the letter. There was $50 in it when it left this post office. This is dated Feb. 14, 1830. The third part is addressed to Mr. Griffen from George M. Richardson. It says that this is to certify that Mr. Douglass did mail $50 on the 18th of this month. This letter is stained and slightly torn. Some of the text is affected. [This letter has to do with the case about the missing money which is included in this collection], Feb. 8, 1830.

Questions to ask Mr. Douglass

Questions to ask Mr. Douglass (2 pages, handwritten). The pages are stained and contain some holes. This affects the text slightly, 1830.