"Nobel Prize in Economics" Douglass North Hand Signed 3X5 Card For Sale
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"Nobel Prize in Economics" Douglass North Hand Signed 3X5 Card:
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Up for sale the "Nobel Prize in Economics" Douglass North Hand Signed 3X5 Card.
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Douglass
Cecil North (November 5, 1920
– November 23, 2015) was an American economist known for his work in economic history. He was the co-recipient (with Robert William Fogel) of
the 1993 Nobel
Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences. In the words of the Nobel Committee, North and Fogel "renewed research in
economic history by applying economic theory and quantitative methods in order
to explain economic and institutional change." Douglass
North was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts,
on November 5, 1920. He moved several times as a child due to his father's work
at MetLife.
The family lived in Ottawa, Lausanne, New York City, and Wallingford, Connecticut. North
was educated at Ashbury College in Ottawa, Ontario and the Choate School in Wallingford, Connecticut.
He was accepted at Harvard at the same
time that his father became the head of MetLife on the west coast, so North
opted to go to University of California,
Berkeley. During his time at Berkeley, North was a member of
the Chi Phi Fraternity. In
1942, he graduated with a B.A. in General Curriculum-Humanities. Although his grades amounted to slightly better
than a "C" average,
he managed to complete a triple major in political science, philosophy and economics. A conscientious objector in World War II, North became a navigator in the Merchant Marine,
traveling between San Francisco and Australia. During that time, he read
economics and picked up his hobby of photography. He taught
navigation at the Maritime Service Officers' School in Alameda during the
last year of the war, and struggled with the decision of whether to become a
photographer or an economist. North
returned to UC Berkeley to pursue a PhD in economics. He finished his studies
in 1952 as he began work as an assistant professor at the University of Washington. North
died on November 23, 2015, at his summer home in Benzonia, Michigan from esophageal cancer at the age of 95.
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