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    Douglass North

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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

    #close #close friend #continue #enjoyed #first

    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

    #because #berkeley #did #feeling #go

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


    — Douglass North

    #during #fly #had #i #learned

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


    — Douglass North

    #elementary school #i #ottawa #private #school

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


    — Douglass North

    #i #impression #left #life #my life

    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

    #case #companion #continues #critic #editor

    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

    #brilliant #chess #economic #economic theory #first

    My brother and sister are both older than I am and were born before my father went off to World War I. ↗


    — Douglass North

    #before #born #both #brother #brother and sister

    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

    #around #banking #centered #dissertation #early

    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

    #boy #company #completed #even #father






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    Also publiDouglass Northd as Nobel Prize Lecture. This final stage of development specialization requires increasing percentages of the resources of the society to be active in the market so that the transaction sector becomes a large share of gross national product. Highly specialized forms of transaction organizations emerge at this stage.

    He is the co-recipient (with Robert William Fogel) of the 1993 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences. ". In the words of the Nobel Committee North and Fogel were awarded the prize "for having renewed research in economic history by applying economic theory and quantitative methods in order to explain economic and institutional change.

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