Irving Fisher: A Biography

by Robert Loring Allen

Book Overview

Irving Fisher was one of the greatest and certainly one of the most colorful American economists. Widely acknowledged as the chief architect of modern neoclassical 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,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1557863059
• ISBN13: 9781557863058
• Release Date: August 1993
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
• Length: 344 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.1" x 9.5"