Author: Douglass North

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Our family life was certainly not intellectual.

Our family life was certainly not intellectual.

- Douglass North

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

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

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

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

- Douglass North

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

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

- Douglass North

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.

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

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