Quote of the day
How full of trifles everything is! It is only one's thoughts that fill a room with something more than furniture.
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)