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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I learned to fly an airplane, and had my own airplane during the 1960s.
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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 went to elementary school in Ottawa, and then to a private secondary school.
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