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What the war did was give me the opportunity of three years of continuous reading, and it was in the course of reading t
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"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

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USA Flag 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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