"I was opposed to World War II, and indeed on June 22, 1941 when Hitler invaded the Soviet Union I suddenly found myself the lone supporter of peace since everybody else had, because of their communist beliefs, shifted over to become supporters of the war."

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"I was opposed to World War II, and indeed on June 22, 1941 when Hitler invaded the Soviet Union I suddenly found myself the lone supporter of peace since everybody else had, because of their communist beliefs, shifted over to become supporters of the war."

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"Our family life was certainly not intellectual."

Family

"My father had not even completed high school when he started as an office boy working for the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, and I am not sure that my mother completed high school."

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

School

"I had hoped to go to law school, but the war started, and because of the strong feeling that I did not want to kill anybody, I joined the Merchant Marine when I graduated from Berkeley."

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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 continue to be a photographer; I have enjoyed fishing and hunting with a close friend; and have owned two ranches, first in northern California and then in the state of Washington."

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"My record at the University of California as an undergraduate was mediocre to say the best."

Study

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

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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 Institutions, Institutional Change and Economic Performance in 1990."

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