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Concepts of Optimality and Their Uses

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  • Tjalling C. Koopmans

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Lecture to the memory of Alfred Nobel, December 11, 1975

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  • Tjalling C. Koopmans, 1975. "Concepts of Optimality and Their Uses," Nobel Prize in Economics documents 1975-2, Nobel Prize Committee.
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