See Also: Modigliani, Franco(encyclopedia)
Modigliani, Amedeo(encyclopedia)
Modigliani, Amedeo(dictionary)
Modigliani and Miller Proposition I(money)
Modigliani and Miller Proposition I(finance)
Modigliani Inversiones, SICAV, S.A.(finance)
Modigliani and Miller Proposition II(money)
Franco-(dictionary)
Franco-(dictionary)
franco(dictionary)

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ascribe (iou)



ascribe verb trans. Branch I orig. also ascrive. ME.
[Latin ascribere, from ad AS-1 + scribere write; forms in -v- from Old French ascriv- stem of ascrire from Italian ascrivere.]
I.
Assign or impute to someone or something as an action, effect, product, etc., or as a quality, characteristic, or property (rarely in a material sense). ME.
R. W. Emerson There is a depth in those brief moments which constrains us to ascribe more reality to them than to all Other experiences. J. N. Lockyer The invention of clocks is variously ascribed to the sixth and ninth centuries. J. Conrad I ascribed this behaviour to her shocked modesty. A. Koestler You ascribe to me an opinion which I do not hold. W. Styron Most of the mischief ascribed to the military has been wrought with the advice and consent of civil authority.
Reckon up, count. LME-E17.
II.
Enrol, register. LME-L17.
Dedicate, inscribe, to. Only in M16.
Subjoin (one's name); subjoin one's name to. E-M17.
ascribable adjective able to be ascribed; attributable: M17.

Modigliani, Franco (sh)




born June 18, 1918, Rome, Italy
died Sept. 25, 2003, Cambridge, Mass., U.S.

Italian-born U.S. economist.

He fled fascist Italy for the U.S. in 1939 and earned a doctorate from the New School for Social Research in 1944. He taught at several universities, including the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1962-88; thereafter professor emeritus). His work on personal savings prompted him to formulate the life-cycle theory, which asserts that individuals build up savings during their younger working lives for use during their own old age and not as an inheritance for their descendants. In order to analyze financial markets, he invented a technique for calculating the value of a company's expected future earnings that became a basic tool in corporate decision making and finance. He received the Nobel Prize in 1985.