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WILLIAM J. BARBER ON IRVING FISHER AND AMERICAN ECONOMIC THOUGHT

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 July 2019

Robert W. Dimand
Robert W. Dimand*
Affiliation:
Department of Economics, Brock University, St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada, L2S 3A1. [email protected].
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Abstract

The eminent scholar William J. Barber made three great contributions to the history of American economic thought: on the institutionalization of political economy in US universities in the nineteenth century, on the interplay between economic ideas and events in US policy-making from 1921 to 1945, and on the contributions, writings, and career of Irving Fisher.

Type
Symposium in Memory of William J. Barber (1925–2016)
Information
Journal of the History of Economic Thought , Volume 41 , Issue 3 , September 2019 , pp. 343 - 349
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Copyright © The History of Economics Society 2019 

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Footnotes

Presented at the round table in memory of William J. Barber at the History of Economics Society conference, Toronto, June 23, 2017.

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