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Business school students around the world study a subject called generically ‘finance’, though specific finance modules often bear a variety of different names. Investors, most of whom have previously been business school students, spend their working lives putting ‘finance’ into operation. The results of their efforts, whether good or bad, then become financial data, are reported and analysed in the financial press, and become in turn the basis of study for the next gener ation of finance students …
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Fraser-Sampson, G. (2014). Finance and its supporting pillars. In: The Pillars of Finance. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137264060_5
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