John Maynard Keynes and Irving Fisher, among others, opposed the gold standard as a waste of valuable resources.

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We learn of Keynes and Irving Fisher seeing eye-to-eye in the Great Depression.

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Unfortunately, Irving Fisher then failed to heed the implications of his own theory.

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Irving Fisher, an economist who worked in the first half of the 20th century, called this the debt deflation trap.

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They are testing the theories of four dead white guys: Irving Fisher (representing the classical economists), John Keynes (the Keynesian school), Ludwig von Mises (the Austrian school), and Milton Friedman (the monetarist school).

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It was first proposed 87 years ago by Irving Fisher, an American economist who believed that policy makers should try to stabilise a broadly defined price index which included asset prices such as shares, bonds and property as well as the prices of producer and consumer goods and services.

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