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The Teaching of Investments - is “Witchcraft” Still Appropriate?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 October 2009

Richard R. West
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Among the topics that have been subjected to intensive research by businessschool scholars over the past two decades, few have received more attention than those which collectively comprise the field of investments. What is more important, even fewer have witnessed the plethora of important research findings that has been forthcoming in the investments field. Indeed, it seems reasonable to argue that in recent years no other business field's research accomplishments have been either as impressive or as generally reinforcing.

Type
Teaching of Investments: Roundtable
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Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis , Volume 9 , Issue 5 , November 1974 , pp. 789 - 793
Copyright
Copyright © School of Business Administration, University of Washington 1974

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