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Article: Fisher's introductory text.(Irving Fisher and his economic theory)
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- The American Journal of Economics and Sociology
- Article date:
- January 1, 2005
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Irving Fisher was a dedicated teacher--in classrooms, in books, and in the personal contacts by which he sought to educate presidents of the United States and influential business and government leaders throughout the world.
At Yale, Fisher liked to prepare for his students his own written expositions. He even wrote a calculus text for fellow students he was tutoring. Not surprisingly, when he assumed responsibility for the economics introductory course in 1910 he was dissatisfied with existing texts and wrote his own. He and a half dozen other instructors taught from experimental editions for two years before he settled on the published version of Elementary ...