"The supremacy of Parliament and the embedding of……" — Douglass North
"The supremacy of Parliament and the embedding of property rights in Common Law put political power in the hands of men anxious to exploit the new economic opportunities and provided the framework for a judicial system to protect and encourage productive economic activity"
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24 Quotes by Douglass North
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To predict the future we would have to know today what we will learn tomorrow which will shape our future…
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While I was there I became deeply interested in photography, and indeed the most noteworthy event in my early life…
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Economists have the correct insight that economics is a theory of choice, the key to the story is the variety…
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Conformity can be costly in a world of uncertainty which requires innovative institutional creation because no one can know the…
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Our family life was certainly not intellectual.
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In 1972 I married again, to Elisabeth Case; she continues to be wife, companion, critic and editor: a partner in…
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My brother and sister are both older than I am and were born before my father went off to World…
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The evolution of government from its medieval, Mafia-like character to that embodying modern legal institutions and instruments is a major…
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I continue to be a photographer; I have enjoyed fishing and hunting with a close friend; and have owned two…
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It was not until I got my first job, at the University of Washington in Seattle, and began playing chess…
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What the war did was give me the opportunity of three years of continuous reading, and it was in the…
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I learned to fly an airplane, and had my own airplane during the 1960s.
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I don't think of poetry as a 'rational' activity but as an aural one. My poems usually begin with words…
— Margaret Atwood
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If there was the opportunity to climb a mountain, or to go ballooning, or some adventurous activity, I would always…
— Roger Bannister
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Snowboarding is an activity that is very popular with people who do not feel that regular skiing is lethal enough.
— Dave Barry
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To make an activity joyful, keep adding things until the activity as a whole becomes more appealing than repulsing.
— Martha Beck
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If you think squash is a competitive activity, try flower arranging.
— Alan Bennett
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The activity of a singer that sings opera is similar to that of an athlete.
— Andrea Bocelli
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The individual activity of one man with backbone will do more than a thousand men with a mere wishbone.
— William J. H. Boetcker
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Humor is by far the most significant activity of the human brain.
— Edward de Bono
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Reading is an activity subsequent to writing: more resigned, more civil, more intellectual.
— Jorge Luis Borges
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I'm just trying to spread the word and upturn the myth that actually you should be resting after cancer treatment.…
— Jo Brand
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Dissent is the native activity of the scientist, and it has got him into a good deal of trouble in…
— Jacob Bronowski
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Where I grew up, in Des Moines, Iowa, there is hardly any downtown economic activity now. Everybody shops in malls…
— Bill Bryson
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