Rangarira ndima iri pasi apa uye ipapo pindura mubvunzo gare gare mumutauro mumwe chetewo sechikamu:  Passage: Douglass North akaberekerwa muCambridge, Massachusetts, musi waNovember 5, 1920. Akatama kanoverengeka somwana nemhaka yebasa rababa vake paMetLife. Mhuri yaigara muOttawa, Lausanne, New York City, uye Wallingford, Connecticut. North akadzidziswa kuAshbury College muOttawa, Ontario uye Chikoro cheChoate muWallingford, Connecticut. Akagamuchirwa kuHarvard panguva imwe cheteyo apo baba vake vakava mukuru weMetLife kumhenderekedzo yokumadokero, naizvozvo North akasarudza kuenda kuYunivhesiti yeCalifornia, Berkeley. Muna 1942, akapedza kudzidza aine B.A. muGeneral Curriculum-Humanities. Kunyange zvazvo mamakisi ake akanga ari nani zvishoma kupfuura avhareji ye "C", akakwanisa kupedza zvidzidzo zvitatu muzvidzidzo zvematongerwe enyika, uzivi uye hupfumi. Akazvipira muhondo yechipiri yenyika, North akava mufambisi wengarava muMerchant Marine, achifamba pakati peSan Francisco neAustralia. Munguva iyoyo, akaverenga zveupfumi uye akatanga kuita basa rake rokutora mifananidzo. Akadzidzisa kufamba nechikepe paMaritime Service Officers 'Chikoro muAlameda mugore rekupedzisira rehondo, uye akatambura nesarudzo yekuti ave mutori wemifananidzo kana economist.North akadzokera kuUC Berkeley kunotsvaga PhD mune zvehupfumi. Akapedza zvidzidzo zvake muna 1952 paakatanga kushanda semubatsiri purofesa paYunivhesiti yeWashington.North akafa musi waNovember 23, 2015, kumba kwake kwezhizha muBenzonia, Michigan kubva kune kenza yeesophageal pazera remakore 95.  Mubvunzo: Ko iye akasarudza kuenda kukoreji ipi, pasinei zvapo nokugamuchirwa paHarvard?
Yunivhesiti yeCalifornia, Berkeley