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I went back to graduate school with the clear intention that what I wanted to do with my life was to improve societies,

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"I went back to graduate school with the clear intention that what I wanted to do with my life was to improve societies, and the way to do that was to find out what made economies work the way they did or fail to work"

- Douglass North

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This quote is written / told by Douglass North somewhere between November 5, 1920 and today. He/she was a famous Economist from USA. The author also have 18 other quotes.

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