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.
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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.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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I would be remiss if I left the impression that my life has been totally preoccupied with scholarly research.
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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.
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My record at the University of California as an undergraduate was mediocre to say the best.
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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.
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