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My father had not even completed high school when he started as an office boy working for the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, and I am not sure that my mother completed high school.

~Douglass North

Topics: Am Boy Company Completed Even Father Had He High High School Insurance Life Life Insurance Metropolitan Mother Office School Started Sure Working I Am

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It was not until I got my first job, at the University of Washington in Seattle, and began playing chess with Don Gordon, a brilliant young theorist, that I learned economic theory.

~Douglass North

Topics: Began Brilliant Chess Economic First First Job Gordon Got Job Learned Playing Seattle Theorist Theory University Until Washington Young

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In 1972 I married again, to Elisabeth Case; she continues to be wife, companion, critic and editor: a partner in the projects and programs that we undertake.

~Douglass North

Topics: Again Case Companion Critic Editor Married Partner Programs Projects She Undertake Wife

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I would be remiss if I left the impression that my life has been totally preoccupied with scholarly research.

~Douglass North

Topics: Been Impression Left Life My Life Preoccupied Research Scholarly Totally Would

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I went to elementary school in Ottawa, and then to a private secondary school.

~Douglass North

Topics: Elementary Elementary School Ottawa Private School Secondary Then

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I went back to graduate school with the clear intention that what I wanted to do with my life was to improve societies, and the way to do that was to find out what made economies work the way they did or fail to work.

~Douglass North

Topics: Back Clear Did Economies Fail Find Graduate Graduate School Improve Intention Life Made My Life Out School Societies Wanted Way Work

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I was opposed to World War II, and indeed on June 22, 1941 when Hitler invaded the Soviet Union I suddenly found myself the lone supporter of peace since everybody else had, because of their communist beliefs, shifted over to become supporters of the war.

~Douglass North

Topics: Because Become Beliefs Communist Else Everybody Everybody Else Found Had Indeed Invaded June Lone Myself Opposed Over Peace Shifted Since Soviet Soviet Union Suddenly Supporter Supporters Union War World World War World War Ii

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I learned to fly an airplane, and had my own airplane during the 1960s.

~Douglass North

Topics: Airplane Fly Had Learned My Own Own 1960S

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I continue to be a photographer; I have enjoyed fishing and hunting with a close friend; and have owned two ranches, first in northern California and then in the state of Washington.

~Douglass North

Topics: California Close Continue Enjoyed First Fishing Friend Hunting Northern Owned Photographer State Then Two Washington

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Economist

Born: November 5th, 1920

Died: November 23rd, 2015

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