This paper examines how economists from David Hume to Irving Fisher have struggled with the applicability of their analyses to those who differed from them in gender, ethnicity, class, or race. Particular attention is paid to how Fisher's discussion of racial and ethnic differences in capital...

This paper surveys the banking reform debates in the United States among quantity theorists and their opponents in the years from the banking panic of 1907 through the publication of Irving Fisher's The Purchasing Power of Money (with Harry G. Brown) to the creation of the Federal Reserve...

Repeatedly throughout his career, and especially when giving special invited lectures to national gatherings of economists, Harry Johnson reexamined the impact of Keynes's "General Theory" and its parallels with the revival of the quantity theory of money. This paper explores Johnson's changing...

This essay discusses Fisher's contributions to life extension and to human capital theory. Copyright 2005 American Journal of Economics and Sociology, Inc..