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- 06 Jul
Pareto and the 80/20 Rule
- Jul 06, 2016
- IanRunge
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- 80/20 Rule, Economists, Pareto Principle
Vilfredo Pareto (1848-1923) was a famous Italian economist who, amongst other things, derived some interesting relationships between income levels and the number of people who received more than that income. Anecdotal evidence credits Pareto with the original recognition that 80% […]
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- 05 Jul
DCF’s and NPV’s … Thank Irving Fisher!
- Jul 05, 2016
- IanRunge
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- Boom and Bust, Business Cycles, DCF, Economics, NPV
Irving Fisher (1867-1947) was one of the greatest and clearest-thinking economists of all time. He established the theoretical support for modern discounted cash flow analysis, writing that “the value of capital is the present value of the flow of (net) […]
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