Irving Fisher (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles Irving Fisher (February 27, 1867 - April 29, 1947) was an American economist, health campaigner, and eugenicist, and one of the earliest American neoclassical economists, though he later rejected the underlying theory of general equilibrium, and his later work on debt deflation is instead considered in the Post-Keynesian school. Although he was perhaps the first celebrity economist, his reputation during his lifetime was irreparably harmed by his sanguine attitude immediately prior to the crash of 1929, and his theory of debt deflation was ignored in favor of the work of John Maynard Keynes. His reputation has since recovered in neoclassical economics since his work was popularized in the late 1950s (Hirshleifer 1958), and more widely due to an increased interest in debt deflation in the Late-2000s recession.