Irving Fisher

Publications

07/29/2019 Irving Fisher

Endorsed by F. A Hayek, it is one of the most important works on 100 percent banking ever written. Perhaps today’s economists at the Fed should take a look. From the preface to the first edition: The revival now of this ancient 100% system, with the

The Rate of Interest: Its Nature, Determination, and Relation to Economic Phenomena

03/11/1907 Irving Fisher

The problem of interest has engaged the attention of writers for two thousand years, and of economists since economics began. And yet, with the exception of what has been accomplished by Rae, Bohm-Bawerk, Landry, and some others, very little progress

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