Irving Fisher

Tags: Economist.

Irving Fisher (February 27 1867 – April 29 1947) was an American economist statistician inventor 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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alma mater

Yale University

birth date

1867-02-27

birth place

Saugerties (village) New York

death date

1947-04-29

death place

New York City

field

Mathematical economics

influenced

James Tobin, Milton Friedman, Maurice Allais, Steve Keen, Scott Sumner, Franco Modigliani, Ben Bernanke

influenced by

William Graham Sumner, Josiah Willard Gibbs, Eugen Böhm von Bawerk, William Stanley Jevons

nationality

United States