This 14-volume edition contains the key works and commentary by leading Fisher scholars, allowing modern readers access to the major issues in Fisherian economic thought.

This compilation of 14 essays presented at a May 1997 conference of the Irving-Fisher-Gesellschaft to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Fisher's death, commemorates and evaluates his work from a modern perspective. The book begins with an introduction to Fisher's personal life, and includes correspondence and an overview of his contributions to the economics profession. Later chapters consider some of the major topics Fisher most notably influenced, such as macroeconomics and the quantity theory; the management of monetary policy and reform of the monetary system; debt-deflation and the Great Depression; capital, income and the rate of interest; and his policy advice to the government. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

This 14-volume edition contains the key works and commentary by leading Fisher scholars, allowing modern readers access to the major issues in Fisherian economic thought.

Irving Fisher was one of the greatest and certainly one of the most colorful American economists. Widely acknowledged as the chief architect of modern neo-classical 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, prohibition, and 100 percent deposit reserve money. This biography, focusing both on Fisher's personal life, as well as on his intellectual contributions, will be of wide interest to economists and of particular interest to American economics scholars who regard him as their pre-1950 giant of the discipline.