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“My early work and publications centered around expanding on the analysis of life insurance in my dissertation and its relationship to investment banking.”

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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…

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To predict the future we would have to know today what we will learn tomorrow which will shape our future actions

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I went to elementary school in Ottawa, and then to a private secondary school.

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Conformity can be costly in a world of uncertainty which requires innovative institutional creation because no one can know the right path to survival.…

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When it came time to go to college, I had been accepted for Harvard when my father was offered the position of head of…

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I would be remiss if I left the impression that my life has been totally preoccupied with scholarly research.

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In 1972 I married again, to Elisabeth Case; she continues to be wife, companion, critic and editor: a partner in the projects and programs…

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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…

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I continue to be a photographer; I have enjoyed fishing and hunting with a close friend; and have owned two ranches, first in northern…

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My brother and sister are both older than I am and were born before my father went off to World War I.

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