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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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
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 brother and sister are both older than I am and were born before my father went off to World War I.
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I learned to fly an airplane, and had my own airplane during the 1960s.
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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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I would be remiss if I left the impression that my life has been totally preoccupied with scholarly research.
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