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Intro; Forthcoming Titles; Acknowledgements; Contents; 1 Economic Scientist, Economic and Social Reformer; Introduction; Overview of the Book; Conclusion: A Great Economist; References; 2 Indifference Curves and a Hydraulic Model of General Equilibrium; Introduction: Fisher's General Equilibrium; Writing the Dissertation; Indifference Curves: The Elusive Measurability of Utility; The Influence of Gibbs; Fisher's Hydraulic Machine; Influence, Neglect, and Rediscovery; Conclusion; References; 3 Revitalizing the Quantity Theory of Money: From the Fisher Relation to the Fisher Equation
IntroductionFisher and the Quantity Theory of Money; The Context of Appreciation and Interest and of The Purchasing Power of Money; Appreciation and Interest; Fisher and the Equation of Exchange; Fisher and the Velocity of Circulation; The Dance of the Dollar-And Its Remedy; Fisher's Contribution to Monetary Economics; References; 4 The Fisher Diagram and the Neoclassical Theory of Interest and Capital; Introduction: Impatience and Opportunity to Invest; The Fisher Diagram; The Fisher Equation; Sources: Rae, Turgot, Böhm-Bawerk, and Landry; Institutionalist Critics: Commons and Veblen
Keynes's Marginal Efficiency of Capital and Fisher's Rate of Return Over CostConclusion; References; 5 Taming the "Dance of the Dollar": From the Compensated Dollar to 100% Money; Rejecting the "So-Called Business Cycle"; The Dance of the Dollar; A Remedy for the Dance of the Dollar: Fisher's Compensated Dollar Plan; A New Remedy for the Dance of the Dollar: Fisher and 100% Money; References; 6 Fighting Money Illusion: The Fisher Ideal Index Number; Introduction; Toward an "Ideal Index"; Reception, Criticism, and Response; Conclusion; References
7 Hubris, Nemesis, and Analysis: "Stock Prices Appear to Have Reached a Permanently High Plateau"A Black Mark of Infamy; Fisher's Contributions to Understanding Financial Markets; Stocks Versus Bonds; Falling off a Permanently High Plateau; Fisher's Statisticians: Karsten and Sasuly; Alfred Cowles; Conclusion; References; 8 The Debt-Deflation Theory of Great Depressions; Fisher's Audience; Diagnosis of the Depression; The Experience of the 1920s and 1930s; A Fisher Model of Deflation and Depression; Bernanke and King Read Fisher (1933) and Study the Debt-Deflation of the 1930s
Fisher's Debt-Deflation Theory and the LiteratureReferences; 9 Changing Economics: Irving Fisher, the Cowles Commission, and the Econometric Society; Introduction; Fisher Encounters Mathematical Economics; Some Mainstream Reactions to Fisher's Mathematical Economics; Fisher and the Origins of the Econometric Society; Fisher and Cowles; Conclusion; References; 10 Fisher's Legacy in Economics; Introduction: Fall and Rise; Return from Obscurity; Pillars and Arches of an Unbuilt Temple; Institutional Influence and Isolation; Intellectual Roots; References; Index
IntroductionFisher and the Quantity Theory of Money; The Context of Appreciation and Interest and of The Purchasing Power of Money; Appreciation and Interest; Fisher and the Equation of Exchange; Fisher and the Velocity of Circulation; The Dance of the Dollar-And Its Remedy; Fisher's Contribution to Monetary Economics; References; 4 The Fisher Diagram and the Neoclassical Theory of Interest and Capital; Introduction: Impatience and Opportunity to Invest; The Fisher Diagram; The Fisher Equation; Sources: Rae, Turgot, Böhm-Bawerk, and Landry; Institutionalist Critics: Commons and Veblen
Keynes's Marginal Efficiency of Capital and Fisher's Rate of Return Over CostConclusion; References; 5 Taming the "Dance of the Dollar": From the Compensated Dollar to 100% Money; Rejecting the "So-Called Business Cycle"; The Dance of the Dollar; A Remedy for the Dance of the Dollar: Fisher's Compensated Dollar Plan; A New Remedy for the Dance of the Dollar: Fisher and 100% Money; References; 6 Fighting Money Illusion: The Fisher Ideal Index Number; Introduction; Toward an "Ideal Index"; Reception, Criticism, and Response; Conclusion; References
7 Hubris, Nemesis, and Analysis: "Stock Prices Appear to Have Reached a Permanently High Plateau"A Black Mark of Infamy; Fisher's Contributions to Understanding Financial Markets; Stocks Versus Bonds; Falling off a Permanently High Plateau; Fisher's Statisticians: Karsten and Sasuly; Alfred Cowles; Conclusion; References; 8 The Debt-Deflation Theory of Great Depressions; Fisher's Audience; Diagnosis of the Depression; The Experience of the 1920s and 1930s; A Fisher Model of Deflation and Depression; Bernanke and King Read Fisher (1933) and Study the Debt-Deflation of the 1930s
Fisher's Debt-Deflation Theory and the LiteratureReferences; 9 Changing Economics: Irving Fisher, the Cowles Commission, and the Econometric Society; Introduction; Fisher Encounters Mathematical Economics; Some Mainstream Reactions to Fisher's Mathematical Economics; Fisher and the Origins of the Econometric Society; Fisher and Cowles; Conclusion; References; 10 Fisher's Legacy in Economics; Introduction: Fall and Rise; Return from Obscurity; Pillars and Arches of an Unbuilt Temple; Institutional Influence and Isolation; Intellectual Roots; References; Index