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Douglass North
Douglass North
American Economist
Born: Nov 5, 1920
Died: Nov 23, 2015
Father First Life School War Work
Related authors: Alan Greenspan Herbert A. Simon John Kenneth Galbraith Milton Friedman Paul A. Volcker Richard Thaler Robert Reich Thomas Sowell
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
Life School Mother Father Completed High High School Life Insurance Had He Sure Insurance Boy Am Metropolitan Office Working Company Even Started
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. Douglass North
Life Photography Competition School College First Seventh Indeed High High School High School Students Winning Students Most Became Prizes While Interested Noteworthy International Event Deeply Early Fourth Third Early Life
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. Douglass North
War Me Opportunity Three Reading Become Give Give Me Economist Course Became Years Continuous Did Convinced Should
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
Me Change Framework Economic Development Performance Institutional Institutions Occupied Led Explore Publication
Our family life was certainly not intellectual. Douglass North
Life Family Our Intellectual Family Life Certainly
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
Work Wife Research Live Summers Has-Been Environment Most Been Years Conducive Michigan Wonderfully Done Northern Where Which Now Last
My early work and publications centered around expanding on the analysis of life insurance in my dissertation and its relationship to investment banking. Douglass North
Life Work Relationship Early Work Dissertation Analysis Life Insurance Investment Around Insurance Expanding Banking Centered Publications Early
My brother and sister are both older than I am and were born before my father went off to World War I. Douglass North
War World Father Before Sister Older Brother Brother And Sister Born Both Am Were Off Than World War World War I
I went to elementary school in Ottawa, and then to a private secondary school. Douglass North
School Secondary Secondary School Ottawa Private Then Elementary Elementary School
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
War Myself Peace World Become Everybody Everybody Else Else Indeed Lone Invaded Had Supporter Supporters Over Since Because Opposed Shifted June Soviet Soviet Union Communist Union Suddenly Beliefs Found World War World War II
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
First State Hunting Photographer California Continue Fishing Friend Close Close Friend Owned Northern Northern California Then Washington Enjoyed Two

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