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Irving Fisher

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American economist and statistician (1867-1947)

United StatesAcademicsLived 1867 to 1947 · aged 80
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Irving Fisher was an American economist, statistician, inventor, eugenicist and progressive social campaigner. He was one of the earliest American neoclassical economists, though his later work on debt deflation has been embraced by the post-Keynesian school.

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Fisher as a young professor (circa 1899)Fisher as a young professor (circa 1899)Theory of interest as determined by impatience to spend income and opportunity to invest it, 1930Theory of interest as determined by impatience to spend income and opportunity to invest it, 1930Irving Fisher and his map that can be folded into a globe,1944Irving Fisher and his map that can be folded into a globe,1944

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1938Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics
1933Fellow of the Econometric Society
1929Josiah Willard Gibbs Lectureship

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Lars OnsagerAlso won Josiah Willard Gibbs LectureshipKenneth ArrowAlso won Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical StatisticsKenneth G. WilsonAlso won Josiah Willard Gibbs LectureshipJohn TukeyAlso won Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical StatisticsGeorge Bernard DantzigAlso won Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical StatisticsJulian Seymour SchwingerAlso won Josiah Willard Gibbs Lectureship

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Irving Fisher was an American economist, statistician, inventor, eugenicist and progressive social campaigner. He was one of the earliest American neoclassical economists, though his later work on debt deflation has been embraced by the post-Keynesian school. Joseph Schumpeter described him as "the greatest economist the United States has ever produced", an assessment later repeated by James Tobin and Milton Friedman.

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United States
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Lived 1867 to 1947 · aged 80
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