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|death_place = Benzonia, Michigan, U.S. |nationality = United States |field = Economic history |institution = Washington University in St. Louis Stanford University Hoover Institution University of Washington Cambridge University |alma_mater = University of California, Berkeley |influences = Melvin M. Knight |influenced = |known_for = |awards = Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences (1993) | repec_prefix = e | repec_id = pno11}} 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 were awarded the prize "for having renewed research in economic history by applying economic theory and quantitative methods in order to explain economic and institutional change." ==Biography== 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, living in Cambridge; Ottawa; Lausanne; New York City; and Wallingford, Connecticut. A conscientious objector in World War II, North became a navigator in the Merchant Marine, traveling between San Francisco and Australia. During this 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.〔Breit, William and Barry T. Hirsch. Lives of the Laureates, 4th ed. Cambridge, Mass: The MIT Press, 2004.〕 He died on November 23, 2015, at his summer home in Benzonia, Michigan at the age of 95. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Douglass North」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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