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Irving Fisher
A Biography
Robert Loring Allen (Author)
9781557863058, Wiley
Hardback, published 31 May 1993
344 pages
23.4 x 16.3 x 2.9 cm, 0.595 kg
Irving Fisher was one of the greatest and certainly one of the most colorful American economists. Widely acknowledged as the chief architect of modern neo-classical economics, he was a writer and teacher of prodigious scope and output whose business career included the earning of a fortune from the invention of a card index system, and its subsequent loss in the Great Crash. He was also an active campaigner for numerous causes, including world peace, prohibition, and 100 percent deposit reserve money. This biography, focusing both on Fisher's personal life, as well as on his intellectual contributions, will be of wide interest to economists and of particular interest to American economics scholars who regard him as their pre-1950 giant of the discipline.
Foreword vii Chapter 2. The Making of a Scientist (1867-91) 20 Chapter 3. The Scientist Matures and Expands (1891-8) 42 Chapter 4. The Crusader Joins the Scholar (1898-1910) 80 Chapter 5. Completing the Foundation (1910-15) 109 Chapter 6. Tilting with Windmills (1916-24) 144 Chapter 7. Making and Losing Money (1925-9) 179 Chapter 8. Theorist, Reformer, Loser (1930-2) 219 Chapter 9. Activist, Advisor, Politician (1933-9) 250 Chapter 10. Moving into the Shadows (1940-7) 272 Chapter 11. Epilogue 295 Selected Bibliography 303 Index 313
Chronology xiii
Chapter 1. Irving Fisher: Scientist and Crusader 1
Subject Areas: Economics [KC]
