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Irving Fisher was born in Saugerties, New York, on 27 February 1867; he was residing in New Haven, Connecticut at the time of his death in a New York City hospital on 29 April 1947.

This chapter was originally published in The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics, 2nd edition, 2008. Edited by Steven N. Durlauf and Lawrence E. Blume

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Tobin, J. (2008). Fisher, Irving (1867–1947). In: The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-349-95121-5_31-2

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    Fisher, Irving (1867–1947)
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    DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-349-95121-5_31-2

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