Download This PaperAn Application of Portfolio Theory and the Efficient Frontier Concept to the Risk-Return Decisions of Beothuk Hunter-Fisher-Gatherers
ASAC 2014 Conference, Forthcoming
13 Pages Posted: 25 Mar 2014
Date Written: March 24, 2014
Abstract
This paper proposes the use of the Markowitz efficient frontier from academic finance as a way of understanding the resource choices of indigenous Beothuk hunter-fisher-gatherers in eighteenth-century Newfoundland.
Keywords: Beothuk, Efficient Frontier, Newfoundland
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Dwyer, Allan, An Application of Portfolio Theory and the Efficient Frontier Concept to the Risk-Return Decisions of Beothuk Hunter-Fisher-Gatherers (March 24, 2014). ASAC 2014 Conference, Forthcoming, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2414057 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2414057
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