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Article: Irving Fisher of Yale.(Irving Fisher)
- Article from:
- The American Journal of Economics and Sociology
- Article date:
- January 1, 2005
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Yale had difficulty in coming to terms with Irving Fisher during his lifetime. That phenomenon bears pondering. After all, Fisher was very much a son of Yale. All of his formal higher education--from his undergraduate years to the award of his Ph.D.--carried Yale's seal of approval. His Yale experience was crucial in shaping his professional trajectory. He was often to remark that his work in mathematical economics had been inspired by two Yale mentors: Willard Gibbs, the mathematical physicist, and William Graham Sumner, the political economist who was also the most outspoken Social Darwinist on the American scene. Fisher, it should also be noted, was based at Yale ...