Cassel and Fisher on Interest and Opportunity Cost

Leland B. Yeager

History of Political Economy, 2018, vol. 50, issue 2, 403-412

Abstract: Gustav Cassel explained the interest rate as the price of a factor of production. Irving Fisher rejected Cassel’s contribution and, astonishingly, denied that interest measures any opportunity cost.

Date: 2018
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