Up for auction 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.