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Harry Markowitz, Nobel-Winning Pioneer of Modern Portfolio Theory, Dies at 95
He overturned the traditional approach to buying stocks by examining the relationship between risk and reward.
. In financial terms, Hume’s work lay behind the maxim that past performance is not a guide to the future.
He continued on this track in a two-year bachelor’s program at the University of Chicago, where, inspired in part by Hume’s focus on the uncertainty of knowledge, he decided to pursue economics.
Within a few minutes, however, Professor Friedman told him that while he could find no mistakes, the topic was extremely novel. “We cannot award you a Ph.D. in economics for a dissertation that is not economics,” he said.
At this point, Dr. Markowitz recounted, “my palms began to sweat” and he was sent into a hallway, where he waited for about five minutes.
Finally, a panel member emerged and said, “Congratulations, Dr. Markowitz.”
Dr. Markowitz insisted that he had not suspected the joke.
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