Their careers reveal the modern fusion of theoretical and practical finance: both had an interest in the stockmarket since childhood, and after their early work on options-pricing both supplemented their academic incomes with Wall Street consultancies.

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The debate is not theoretical and is already having practical implications on both utilities and energy developers.

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Dale Nordquist, associate director of the Center for Farm Financial Management at the University of Minnesota, said Missouri's practical approach to understanding farm finances is relatively uncommon at large, land-grant universities where both students and professors are more likely to concentrate on theoretical approaches as opposed to practical solutions, and the use of personal data can still be seen as an intrusion.

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