Irving Fisher

• Main Author: Dimand, Robert W. (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Series: Great Thinkers in Economics,
• Subjects: Economic history.; Macroeconomics.; Economic policy.; Financial crises.; History of Economic Thought/Methodology.; Economic History.; Macroeconomics/Monetary Economics//Financial Economics.; Economic Policy.; Financial Crises.

Acclaimed by Joseph Schumpeter as 'The greatest economist the United States has ever produced', this book examines the life and work of American economist and statistician Irving Fisher (1867-1947). Fisher's reputation suffered for decades after his incorrect predictions for the stock...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Economic Scientist, Economic and Social Reformer
• 2. Indifference Curves and a Hydraulic Model of General Equilibrium
• 3. Revitalizing the Quantity Theory of Money: From the Fisher Relation to the Fisher Equation
• 4. The Fisher Diagram and the Neoclassical Theory of Interest and Capital
• 5. Taming the "Dance of the Dollar" from the Compensated Dollar to 100% Money
• 6. Fighting Money Illusion: The Fisher Ideal Index Number
• 7. Hubris, Nemesis and Analysis: "Stock Prices appear to have reached a Permanently High Plateau"
• 8. The Debt-Deflation Theory of Great Depressions
• 9. Changing Economics: Fisher, the Cowles Commission, and the Econometric Society
• 10. Fisher's Legacy in Economics.