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When it came time to go to college, I had been accepted for Harvard when my father was offered the position of head of the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company office on the west coast, and we moved to San Francisco.

~Douglass North

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While I was there I became deeply interested in photography, and indeed the most noteworthy event in my early life was winning first, third, fourth and seventh prizes in an international competition for college and high school students.

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Topics: Became College Competition Deeply Early Event First Fourth High High School High School Students Indeed Interested International Life Most Photography Prizes School Seventh Students Third While Winning

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My early work and publications centered around expanding on the analysis of life insurance in my dissertation and its relationship to investment banking.

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Topics: Analysis Around Banking Centered Dissertation Early Early Work Expanding Insurance Investment Life Life Insurance Publications Relationship Work

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My brother and sister are both older than I am and were born before my father went off to World War I.

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Topics: Am Before Born Both Brother Brother And Sister Father Off Older Sister Than War Were World World War World War I I Am

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I had hoped to go to law school, but the war started, and because of the strong feeling that I did not want to kill anybody, I joined the Merchant Marine when I graduated from Berkeley.

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What the war did was give me the opportunity of three years of continuous reading, and it was in the course of reading that I became convinced that I should become an economist.

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The development of a political-economic framework to explore long-run institutional change occupied me during all of the 1980s and led to the publication of Institutions, Institutional Change and Economic Performance in 1990.

~Douglass North

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Our family life was certainly not intellectual.

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My wife and I now live in the summers in northern Michigan in an environment which is wonderfully conducive to research, and where most of my work in the last 15 years has been done.

~Douglass North

Topics: Been Conducive Done Environment Last Live Michigan Most Northern Now Research Summers Where Which Wife Wonderfully Work Years

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My record at the University of California as an undergraduate was mediocre to say the best.

~Douglass North

Topics: Best California Mediocre Record Say Undergraduate University University Of California

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Economist

Born: November 5th, 1920

Died: November 23rd, 2015

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