Franco Modigliani

Prize Lecture

Lecture to the memory of Alfred Nobel, December 9, 1985

Life Cycle, Individual Thrift and the Wealth of Nations

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From Nobel Lectures, Economics 1981-1990, Editor Karl-Göran Mäler, World Scientific Publishing Co., Singapore, 1992

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