The Encyclopedia Americana (1920)/Fisher, Irving

FISHER, Irving, American political economist: b. Saugerties, N. Y., 27 Feb. 1867. He was educated at Yale (A.B., 1888; Ph.D., 1891), where he remained as member of the faculty, becoming professor of political economy in 1898. He spent 1893-94 in study at Berlin and Paris. From 1896 to 1910 he edited the Yale Review. He was a member of Roosevelt's National Conservation Commission. He is president of the American Association for Labor Legislation and Fellow, of the American Statistical Association. He is a member of the American Economic Association and many other societies. He has published &lsquo;Mathematical Investigations in the Theory of Value and Prices&rsquo; (1892; trans. French, 1916); &lsquo;Elements of Geometry,&rsquo; with Prof. A. W. Phillips (1896, trans. into Japanese 1900); &lsquo;Bibliography of Mathematical Economics&rsquo; in (and assisted in translating and editing) Cournot's &lsquo; Mathematical Theory of Wealth&rsquo; (1897); &lsquo;A Brief Introduction to the Infinitesimal Calculus&rsquo; (1897, trans. into German 1904, Italian 1909); &lsquo;The Nature of Capital and Income&rsquo; (1906, trans. into French 1911, Japanese 1913); &lsquo;The Rate of Interest&rsquo; (1907, Japanese condensation with &lsquo;Nature of Capital and Income,&rsquo; 1912); &lsquo;National Vitality&rsquo; (1909); &lsquo;The Purchasing Power of Money&rsquo; (1911, trans. into German and French 1916); &lsquo;Elementary Principles of Economics&rsquo; (1912); &lsquo;Why is the Dollar Shrinking?&rsquo; (1914); &lsquo;How to Live,&rsquo; joint author with Dr. E. L. Fisk (1915); also numerous articles, monographs, etc.