Abstract
These great minds motivated our knowledge of what we now call personal finance. As a consequence of their contributions, we now think of financial markets not only as a tool to mobilize capital for industry but also as the vehicle that evens out our consumption over our lifetime, prepares us so that we may retire in comfort from our working life, and insures us against the vagaries of the business cycle.
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© 2011 Colin Read
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Read, C. (2011). Combined Contributions. In: The Life Cyclists. Great Minds in Finance. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230349445_23
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