Douglass North Quotes

Douglass North — American Economist born on November 05, 1920,

Douglass Cecil North was an American economist known for his work in economic history. He was the co-recipient 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.".. (wikipedia)

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

Our family life was certainly not intellectual.

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

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.

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

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