Irving Fisher

Intro -- Forthcoming Titles -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- 1 Economic Scientist, Economic and Social Reformer -- Introduction -- Overview of the Book -- Conclusion: A Great Economist -- References -- 2 Indifference Curves and a Hydraulic Model of General Equilibrium -- Introduction: Fisher's General Equilibrium -- Writing the Dissertation -- Indifference Curves: The Elusive Measurability of Utility -- The Influence of Gibbs -- Fisher's Hydraulic Machine -- Influence, Neglect, and Rediscovery -- Conclusion -- References -- 3 Revitalizing the Quantity Theory of Money: From the Fisher Relation to the Fisher Equation -- Introduction -- Fisher and the Quantity Theory of Money -- The Context of Appreciation and Interest and of The Purchasing Power of Money -- Appreciation and Interest -- Fisher and the Equation of Exchange -- Fisher and the Velocity of Circulation -- The Dance of the Dollar-And Its Remedy -- Fisher's Contribution to Monetary Economics -- References -- 4 The Fisher Diagram and the Neoclassical Theory of Interest and Capital -- Introduction: Impatience and Opportunity to Invest -- The Fisher Diagram -- The Fisher Equation -- Sources: Rae, Turgot, Böhm-Bawerk, and Landry -- Institutionalist Critics: Commons and Veblen -- Keynes's Marginal Efficiency of Capital and Fisher's Rate of Return Over Cost -- Conclusion -- References -- 5 Taming the "Dance of the Dollar": From the Compensated Dollar to 100% Money -- Rejecting the "So-Called Business Cycle" -- The Dance of the Dollar -- A Remedy for the Dance of the Dollar: Fisher's Compensated Dollar Plan -- A New Remedy for the Dance of the Dollar: Fisher and 100% Money -- References -- 6 Fighting Money Illusion: The Fisher Ideal Index Number -- Introduction -- Toward an "Ideal Index" -- Reception, Criticism, and Response -- Conclusion -- References.