Elementary Principles of Economics (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781596059337)

From America's first celebrated economist comes this 1912 textbook with a succinct yet highly informative introduction to economics as it was understood and practiced in the early 20th century. Fisher provides in-depth discussions of basic topics including: . wealth, property, and income . credit and debt . currency, prices, and monetary systems . supply and demand, capital and labor . poverty . and more. American economist IRVING FISHER (1867-1947) was professor of political economy at Yale University. Among his many books are The Rate of Interest (1907), Why Is the Dollar Shrinking? A Study in the High Cost of Living (1914), and Booms and Depressions (1932). _____________________________ ALSO FROM COSIMO: Fisher's The Purchasing Power of Money: Its Determination and Relation to Credit Interest and Crises and Mathematical Investigations in the Theory of Value and Prices and Appreciation and Interest

Author: Irving Fisher
ISBN-10: 1596059338
ISBN-13: 9781596059337
Publisher: Cosimo Classics
Language: English
Published: 10/01/2006
Pages: 564
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.56lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 1.26d