Harry M. Markowitz

Prize Lecture

Lecture to the memory of Alfred Nobel, December 7, 1990

Foundations of Portfolio Theory

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From Nobel Lectures, Economics 1981-1990, Editor Karl-Göran Mäler, World Scientific Publishing Co., Singapore, 1992

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