Celebrating Irving Fisher

The Legacy of a Great Economist
Herausgeber: Geanakoplos, John; Dimand, Roger W.

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Produktbeschreibung

Consists of papers explaining Fisher's contributions to econometrics, a reassessment of his textbook on economics, his theories of capital and interest, debt-deflation theory of depression, the financial devices he developed to improve governance and policy-making, and his crusades for the prohibition of alcoholic beverages and healthy diets.

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Produktdetails

• Economics and Sociology Thematic Issue
• Verlag: John Wiley and Sons Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 476
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. April 2000
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 678g
• ISBN-13: 9781405133074
• ISBN-10: 1405133074
• Artikelnr.: 22459061

Autorenporträt

Robert W. Dimand is a Professor of Economics at Brock University, St. Catharines, Ontario, where he holds a Chancellor's Chair for Research Excellence. His research is on the history of macroeconomics, of game theory, and of women in economics. John Geanakoplos is the James Tobin Professor of Economics at Yale University, New Haven, CT, where he is the Director of the Cowles Foundation for Research in Economics. His research is in economic theory and mathematical economics, with a focus on general equilibrium with incomplete markets.

Inhaltsangabe

Frontispieces.
Acknowledgments.
Foreword (George W. Fisher).
Celebrating Irving Fisher: the Legacy of a Great Economist (Robert W.
Dimand and John Geanakoplos).
Irving Fisher (1867-1947 (James Tobin).
Irving Fisher of Yale (William J. Barber).
How to Compute Equilibrium Prices in 1891 (William C. Brainard and Herbert
E. Scarf).
Comment on William C. Brainard and Herbert E. Scarf's "How to Compute
Equilibrium Prices in 1891" (K.R. Sreenivasan).
Controlling the Price Level (Robert E. Hall)'.
Comment on Robert E. Hall's "Controlling the Price Level" (James Tobin).
Stable Prices, Money and the Cost of Living (Martin Shubik).
Econometric Analysis of Fisher's Equation (Peter C.B. Phillips).
Comments on "Econometric Analysis of Fisher's Equation" - by Peter C.B.
Phillips (Jon Rust).
Fisher, Keynes, and the Corridor of Stability (Robert W. Dimand).
Fisher's Introductory Text (James Tobin).
Fisher's The Nature of Capital and Income (James Tobin).
Irving Fisher's Spending (Consumption) Tax in Retrospect (John B. Shoven
and John Whalley).
Comments on John B. Shoven and John Whalley's "Irving Fisher's Spendings
(Consumption ) Tax in Retrospect (Alan J. Aurebach).
Comments on John B. Shoven and John Whalley's, "Irving Fisher's Spendings
(Consumption) tax in Retrospect" (Michael J. Graetz).
The Ideal Inflation-Indexed Bond and Irving Fisher's Impatience theory of
Interest with Overlapping Generations (John Geanakoplos).
Comments on John Geanakoplos's "The Ideal Inflation-Indexed Bond and Irving
Fisher's Impatience Theory of Interest with Overlapping Generations"
(Robert J. Shiller).
Index Number Theory Using Differences Rather Than Ratios (W. Erwin
Diewert).
Comment on W. Erwin Diewert's, "Index Number Theory Using Differences
Rather Than Ratios" (Matthew D. Shapiro).
Irving Fisher and the Contribution of Improved Longevity to Living
Standards 9William D. Nordhaus).
Comments on William D. Nordhaus's, "Irving Fisher and the Contribution of
Improved Longevity to Living Standards" (Robvert W. Dimand).
Comments on William D. Nordhaus's, "Irving Fisher and the Contribution of
Improved Longevity to Living Standards: (T. N. Srinivasan).
Health, Government, and Irving Fisher (Victor R. Fuchs).
Does "Health Promotion" Really Promote Health (Alvan R. Feinstein).
Irving Fisher, Victor Fuchs, and the Health-Government Tangle (Richard
Zeckhauser).
Index.