Purpose The paper provides a detailed historical account of Douglass C. North's early intellectual contributions and analytical developments in pursuing a Grand Theory for why some countries are rich and others poor. Design/methodology/approach The author approaches the discussion using a...

This paper was prepared to support the Libyan Ministry of Health in designingand establishing its health economics unit. Over the past decade, Libya's health systemhas been significantly and negatively impacted by the country's conflict, and the Ministryof Health has not been able to execute key...