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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 (Douglass North Quotes)
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. (Douglass North Quotes)
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 Quotes)
Conformity can be costly in a world of uncertainty which requires innovative institutional creation because no one can know the right path to survival. Over time, the richer the cultural context in terms of providing multiple experimentation and creative competition, the more likely the successful survival of the society (Douglass North Quotes)
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 Quotes)
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 Quotes)
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 Quotes)
My brother and sister are both older than I am and were born before my father went off to World War I. (Douglass North Quotes)
The evolution of government from its medieval, Mafia-like character to that embodying modern legal institutions and instruments is a major part of the history of freedom. It is a part that tends to be obscured or ignored because of the myopic vision of many economists, who persist in modeling government as nothing more than a gigantic form of theft and income redistribution (Douglass North Quotes)
The supremacy of Parliament and the embedding of property rights in Common Law put political power in the hands of men anxious to exploit the new economic opportunities and provided the framework for a judicial system to protect and encourage productive economic activity (Douglass North Quotes)
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 Quotes)
My record at the University of California as an undergraduate was mediocre to say the best (Douglass North Quotes)
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 Quotes)
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 Quotes)
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 Quotes)
I went to elementary school in Ottawa, and then to a private secondary school (Douglass North Quotes)
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 (Douglass North Quotes)
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 Quotes)
I learned to fly an airplane, and had my own airplane during the 1960s (Douglass North Quotes)
Our family life was certainly not intellectual (Douglass North Quotes)
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 Quotes)
I would be remiss if I left the impression that my life has been totally preoccupied with scholarly research (Douglass North Quotes)
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 Quotes)
To predict the future we would have to know today what we will learn tomorrow which will shape our future actions (Douglass North Quotes)
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 Quotes)
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 Quotes)