Douglass North Quotes

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

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: economist
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: November 5, 1920 - November 23, 2015

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For me, the best way to unwind at the end of the day while I'm pregnant is to take a nice, long soak. I get in my bathtub, download a show onto my computer, prop it up on a chair, and just lie there watching and relaxing.

Jessie James Decker

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I'm very good at drawing fouls.

Joel Embiid

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You can't separate the phenomenal birth of unionism in the United States of America from the Pullman porters. This same small group of men, who grew to be 10,000 strong, was also the organizational foundation for the civil rights movement and all of the gains that were made in the '40s and the '50s. That, and the black church.

Andre Braugher

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I ain't go on media and spazz. That's what crash dummies do. That ain't what I do.

Shy Glizzy

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The more things you do, the more you can do.

Lucille Ball

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Everybody wants to share life and be in love and be loved.

Judy Blume

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I like to listen to French radio; I'm trying to learn French.

Chris Pine

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Welcome to the 77th and last Oscars.

Chris Rock

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I succeeded at venture capital because, for years, I rarely thought about or spent time on anything else. Anything less than that unmitigated full commitment leaves me feeling frustrated and ineffective.

Chris Sacca

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Data suggest that central black holes might play an important role in adjusting how many stars form in the galaxies they inhabit. For one thing, the energy produced when matter falls into the black hole may heat up the surrounding gas at the center of the galaxy, thus preventing cooling and halting star formation.

Priyamvada Natarajan

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There are times when we have to add resources to Apple, grow talent to do something that we weren't able to do before.

Phil Schiller

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But there comes a moment in everybody's life when he must decide whether he'll live among the human beings or not - a fool among fools or a fool alone.

Thornton Wilder

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