Fisher, Irving 1867-1947

Archival location guide — where this economist’s surviving papers are held, their notable correspondents, and key published sources.

Born 1867 · died 1947

Irving Fisher was an American economist, statistician, inventor, eugenicist 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. Joseph Schumpeter described him as "the greatest economist the United States has ever produced", an assessment later repeated by James Tobin and Milton Friedman.

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Where the papers are held

The surviving papers of Fisher, Irving 1867-1947 are held at New York Public Library Main Branch; Manuscripts and Archives Department Yale University Library.

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