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. Douglass North More Quotes by Douglass North More Quotes From Douglass North 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. Douglass North performance me development change My wife and I now live in the summers in northern Michigan in an environment which is wonderfully conducive to research, and where most of my work in the last 15 years has been done. Douglass North live wife research work I would be remiss if I left the impression that my life has been totally preoccupied with scholarly research. Douglass North my-life left research life I went to elementary school in Ottawa, and then to a private secondary school. Douglass North private then elementary-school school I was opposed to World War II, and indeed on June 22, 1941 when Hitler invaded the Soviet Union I suddenly found myself the lone supporter of peace since everybody else had, because of their communist beliefs, shifted over to become supporters of the war. Douglass North myself war peace world
