Rịba ama amaokwu a dị n'okpuru ma zaa ajụjụ ahụ mgbe e mesịrị n'otu asụsụ ahụ dị ka amaokwu ahụ:  Ebe o si: A mụrụ Douglass North na Cambridge, Massachusetts, na November 5, 1920. Ọ kwagara ebe dị iche iche mgbe ọ bụ nwata n'ihi ọrụ nna ya na MetLife. Ezinụlọ ahụ bi na Ottawa, Lausanne, New York City, na Wallingford, Connecticut. North gụrụ akwụkwọ na Ashbury College na Ottawa, Ontario na Choate School na Wallingford, Connecticut. A nabatara ya na Harvard n'otu oge ahụ nna ya ghọrọ onye isi nke MetLife na ụsọ oké osimiri ọdịda anyanwụ, yabụ North họọrọ ịga Mahadum California, Berkeley. N'afọ 1942, ọ gụsịrị akwụkwọ na B.A. na General Curriculum-Humanities. Ọ bụ ezie na akara ya dị ntakịrị karịa nkezi "C", o jisiri ike mezue isi atọ na sayensị ndọrọ ndọrọ ọchịchị, nkà ihe ọmụma na akụnụba. Onye jụrụ ịlụ agha na Agha Worldwa nke Abụọ, North ghọrọ onye ọkwọ ụgbọ mmiri na Merchant Marine, na-eme njem n'etiti San Francisco na Australia. N'oge ahụ, ọ gụrụ akwụkwọ gbasara akụnụba ma bido ịse foto. Ọ kụziri ịnya ụgbọ mmiri na ụlọ akwụkwọ ndị ọrụ ụgbọ mmiri dị na Alameda n'afọ ikpeazụ nke agha ahụ, ma gbalịsie ike ikpebi ma ọ ga-abụ onye na-ese foto ma ọ bụ onye na-akụnụba. North laghachiri na UC Berkeley iji nweta PhD na akụnụba. Ọ gụsịrị akwụkwọ ya na 1952 ka ọ malitere ọrụ dịka onye prọfesọ na-enyere aka na Mahadum Washington. North nwụrụ na November 23, 2015, n'ụlọ ezumike ya na Benzonia, Michigan site na ọrịa cancer esophageal na afọ 95.  Ajụjụ: Olee kọleji o kpebiri ịga, n'agbanyeghị na a nabatara ya na Harvard?
Mahadum California, Berkeley