Duba wurin da ke ƙasa sannan ka amsa tambayar daga baya a cikin harshe ɗaya kamar yadda wurin yake:  An haifi Douglass North a Cambridge, Massachusetts, a ranar 5 ga Nuwamba, 1920. Ya koma sau da yawa a matsayin yaro saboda aikin mahaifinsa a MetLife. Iyalin sun zauna a Ottawa, Lausanne, New York City, da Wallingford, Connecticut. Arewa ta sami ilimi a Kwalejin Ashbury a Ottawa, Ontario da kuma Makarantar Choate a Wallingford, Connecticut. An karbe shi a Harvard a daidai lokacin da mahaifinsa ya zama shugaban MetLife a gabar yamma, don haka Arewa ta zaɓi zuwa Jami'ar California, Berkeley. A cikin 1942, ya kammala karatu tare da BA a cikin General Curriculum-Humanities. Kodayake maki ya kasance mafi kyau fiye da "C", ya gudanar da kammala digiri na uku a cikin kimiyyar siyasa, falsafar da tattalin arziki. Wani mai hankali a cikin yakin duniya na biyu, Arewa ya zama mai tafiya a cikin Merchant Marine, yana tafiya tsakanin San Francisco da Ostiraliya. A wannan lokacin, ya karanta ilimin tattalin arziki kuma ya ɗauki sha'awar daukar hoto. Ya koyar da kewayawa a Makarantar Jami'an Sojojin Ruwa a Alameda a cikin shekarar da ta gabata na yaƙin, kuma ya yi gwagwarmaya da yanke shawara ko ya zama mai daukar hoto ko masanin tattalin arziki. Arewa ta koma UC Berkeley don neman digirin digirgir a fannin tattalin arziki. Ya gama karatunsa a shekarar 1952 yayin da ya fara aiki a matsayin mataimakin farfesa a Jami'ar Washington. Arewa ya mutu a ranar 23 ga Nuwamba, 2015, a gidansa na rani a Benzonia, Michigan daga cutar kansa ta esophageal yana da shekaru 95.  Tambaya: Wace kwaleji ce ya yanke shawarar zuwa, duk da cewa an karbe shi a Harvard?
Jami'ar California, Berkeley