Quote of the day
We must have religion for religion's sake, morality for morality's sake, as with art for art's sake…the beautiful cannot be the way to what is useful, or to what is good, or to what is holy; it leads only to itself.
Irving Fisher
Born: February 27, 1867
Died: April 29, 1947 (aged 80)
Bio: Irving Fisher 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.
Known for:
- The Theory of Interest
- The Nature of Capital and Income (1906)
- Booms and depressions (1932)
- Elementary principles of economics (1911)








