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Irving Fisher (1930): The Theory of Interest, London: Macmillan.
Stephen A. Ross, Randolph W. Westerfield, and Jeffrey Jaffe (2005): Corporate
Finance, 7th edition, New York: McGraw-Hill, p. 100 and pp. 279-280.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fisher_separation_theorem
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