Irving Fisher

Robert Dimand is Professor of Economics at Brock University, Canada. In 2012-2013 he was President of the History of Economics Society. His first book, The Origins of the Keynesian Revolution (1988), was based on his Yale PhD dissertation, supervised by James Tobin. Since then he has authored and edited a dozen books, and more than 100 refereed journal articles. He previously published another book in this series entitled James Tobin (2014).

• 1. Economic Scientist, Economic and Social Reformer.- 2. Indifference Curves and a Hydraulic Model of General Equilibrium.- 3. Revitalizing the Quantity Theory of Money: From the Fisher Relation to the Fisher Equation.- 4. The Fisher Diagram and the Neoclassical Theory of Interest and Capital.- 5. Taming the “Dance of the Dollar” from the Compensated Dollar to 100% Money.- 6. Fighting Money Illusion: The Fisher Ideal Index Number.- 7. Hubris, Nemesis and Analysis: “Stock Prices appear to have reached a Permanently High Plateau”.- 8. The Debt-Deflation Theory of Great Depressions.- 9. Changing Economics: Fisher, the Cowles Commission, and the Econometric Society.- 10. Fisher’s Legacy in Economics.