Celebrating Irving Fisher: The Legacy of a Great Economist

Roger W. Dimand (Editor), John Geanakoplos (Editor)

ISBN: 978-1-4051-3307-4

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476 pages

April 2005, Wiley-Blackwell

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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.