"Stable Money A History Of The Movement" 1934 FISHER, Irving
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FISHER, Irving
[484] pp.
Adelphi Company Publishers
First Edition
1934
8 1/8" x 5 1/2"
Ex-Libris Seymour H. Knox
Seymour Horace Knox II (September 1, 1898 – September 27, 1990) was a Buffalo, New York, philanthropist and polo player. The son of wealthy businessman Seymour H. Knox, he owned a palatial home designed by C. P. H. Gilbert.
Signed by the author and Frederic Delano and J. H. Rand in ink on a tipped-in colophon on the front pastedown
Irving Fisher was an American economist and Progressive social campaigner who made important contributions to utility theory, general equilibrium, markets capital and interest rates. He was equally an advocate of vegetarianism, prohibition, and eugenics. Scarce economics title
The present book is intended to be not so much a history of [monetary] catastrophes, due to unstable money and endured by unsuspecting millions subject to the money illusion, but rather a history of the efforts of a few to remedy or prevent such catastrophies." - xxi. Pages 443-484 constitute a lengthy list of Stable Money Pioneers, individuals who supported the movement. Corporate affiliations are included for most of these names, thus the list reads like a corporate Who's Who of America.
[484] pp.
Adelphi Company Publishers
First Edition
1934
8 1/8" x 5 1/2"
Ex-Libris Seymour H. Knox
Seymour Horace Knox II (September 1, 1898 – September 27, 1990) was a Buffalo, New York, philanthropist and polo player. The son of wealthy businessman Seymour H. Knox, he owned a palatial home designed by C. P. H. Gilbert.
Signed by the author and Frederic Delano and J. H. Rand in ink on a tipped-in colophon on the front pastedown
Irving Fisher was an American economist and Progressive social campaigner who made important contributions to utility theory, general equilibrium, markets capital and interest rates. He was equally an advocate of vegetarianism, prohibition, and eugenics. Scarce economics title
The present book is intended to be not so much a history of [monetary] catastrophes, due to unstable money and endured by unsuspecting millions subject to the money illusion, but rather a history of the efforts of a few to remedy or prevent such catastrophies." - xxi. Pages 443-484 constitute a lengthy list of Stable Money Pioneers, individuals who supported the movement. Corporate affiliations are included for most of these names, thus the list reads like a corporate Who's Who of America.