Economic Scientist, Economic and Social Reformer

Robert Dimand

Chapter Chapter 1 in Irving Fisher, 2019, pp 1-15 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract Economic Scientist, Economic and Social Reformer: An overview of the career and contributions of Irving Fisher (1867–1947) of Yale, an outstanding scientific economist whose reputation within the discipline of economics has recovered from his varied efforts at social reform (prohibition of alcohol, a new world map projection, dietary reform, a new calendar, eugenics) and being spectacularly wrong about the stock market in October 1929.

Date: 2019
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-05177-8_1

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