Douglass North Quotes & Sayings

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19 most famous Douglass North quotes and sayings (economist). These are the first 10 quotes we have.

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
“My early work and publications centered around expanding on the analysis of life insurance in my dissertation and its relationship to investment banking.”
“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 Quotes
“I would be remiss if I left the impression that my life has been totally preoccupied with scholarly research.”
Douglass North Quotes
“Our family life was certainly not intellectual.”
Douglass North Quotes
“My record at the University of California as an undergraduate was mediocre to say the best.”
“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 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
“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
“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.”

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