I learned to fly an airplane, and had my own airplane during the 1960s.
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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
My early work and publications centered around expanding on the analysis of life insurance in my dissertation and its relationship to investment banking.
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Our family life was certainly not intellectual.
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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.
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While I was there my life was completely changed by becoming a convinced Marxist and engaging in a variety of student liberal activities.
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