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Edited by William J. Barber

Consulting Editor James Tobin

Published: 1997
DOI: 10.4324/9781851962259
Set ISBN: 9781851962259

Set Contents

Correspondence and Other Commentary on Economic Policy, 1930–1947

Edited by
William J. Barber

Consulting Editor James Tobin

The materials collected in this volume have been selected to illuminate Fisher’s perspectives on the challenges facing economists and economicpolicy makers between 1930 and his death in April 1947. These were years in which there were challenges aplenty. Economic policy-makers had to come to grips with the Great Depression, with economic mobilization for war, and with the design of a post-World War II economic order. Meanwhile members of the economics profession were being obliged to define their position vis-a-vis a doctrinal revolution associated with the name of Britain’s John Maynard Keynes.

Volume Contents

Front Matter
Introduction By William J. Barber; Irving Fisher
I

Responses to the First Phases of the Depression By Irving Fisher
II

Unofficial Brain-Trusting in the First New Deal By Irving Fisher
III

Fisher and Debates among the Professionals, 1933–1936 By Irving Fisher
IV

Commentary on the Second Roosevelt Administration By Irving Fisher
V

Commentary on Economic Mobilization for War By Irving Fisher
VI

Commentary on the Shaping of the Post-War World By Irving Fisher
VII

Fisher and His Contacts with Professional Economists in His Final Years By Irving Fisher
Back Matter