The Economics of Irving Fisher

Reviewing the Scientific Work of a Great Economist
This book pays tribute to the late Irving Fisher by discussing a range of issues on which he worked throughout his life. It serves as an excellent introduction to the contributions of one of the great economists spanning the late nineteenth and mid-twentieth centuries.
This book pays tribute to the late Irving Fisher by discussing a range of issues on which he worked throughout his life. It serves as an excellent introduction to the contributions of one of the great economists spanning the late nineteenth and mid-twentieth centuries.

The book begins with an overview of Irving Fisher's life including his contribution to the economics profession as well as details of his personal interests and beliefs. The contributors then go on to examine, from a modern perspective, some of the major topics Irving Fisher worked on including:

• macroeconomics and the quantity theory
• the management of monetary policy and reform of the monetary system
• debt-deflation and the Great Depression
• statistics, econometrics and index numbers
• capital, income and the rate of interest
• value, prices and financial assets
• policy advice to government

This book will be of interest to those working in the fields of the history of economic thought, monetary economics and economics and statistics.

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