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born 1934 United States

William Forsyth Sharpe (born June 16, 1934) is an American economist. He is the STANCO 25 Professor of Finance, Emeritus at Stanford University's Graduate School of Business, and the winner of the 1990 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences along with Harry Markowitz and Merton Miller.

United States
Economists
Nobel laureates

Also known as: William Forsyth Sharpe, William Sharpe

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Extreme concentration of economic and political power.

The central question for positive financial economics is valuation – what is the value today of a set of future prospective cash flows? The central question for normative financial economics is the appropriate use of financial instruments in a world in which values are set wholly or partially in accord with the principles of positive financial economics.

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