Article: Irving Fisher's spendings (consumption) tax in retrospect.

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Introduction

IRVING FISHER'S REMARKABLE CAREER, and even more remarkable writings, left their indelible marks everywhere across what has emerged as the discipline of economics. From mathematical formalization to intertemporal optimization, general equilibrium, monetary theory, and public finance, the imprint remains sharp and strong. What is striking is that the deepest conceptual contributions repeatedly are driven by the most practical of concerns and presented in language that is aimed at persuasion for implementation of practical proposals, logically following from his conceptual or theoretical economic analysis.

In 1942, when he was an ...

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