“only shaking out of the lunatic fringe”
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Irving Fisher
Irving Fisher was an American economist, statistician, inventor, eugenicist and progressive social campaigner. He was one of the earliest American neoclassical economists, though his later work on debt deflation has been embraced by the post-Keynesian school. Joseph Schumpeter described him as "the greatest economist the United States has ever produced", an assessment later repeated by James Tobin…
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science · American economist (1867–1947) · economist · statistician · inventor · also Irving Fisher, Fisher
Born 27 February 1867 · Died 29 April 1947 · Q312739
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2020· 2 entries
Published “Global burden of 87 risk factors in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019” in The Lancet — cited 8,088 times.
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Published “Global burden of 369 diseases and injuries in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019” in The Lancet — cited 16,099 times.
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2017· 1 entry
Published “GW170817: Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Neutron Star Inspiral” in Physical Review Letters — cited 8,297 times.
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2016· 1 entry
Published “Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Black Hole Merger” in Physical Review Letters — cited 11,755 times.
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2015· 1 entry
Published “PD-1 Blockade in Tumors with Mismatch-Repair Deficiency” in New England Journal of Medicine — cited 8,268 times.
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2005· 1 entry
Published “Radiotherapy plus Concomitant and Adjuvant Temozolomide for Glioblastoma” in New England Journal of Medicine — cited 18,810 times.
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1995· 1 entry
By Senator Pete Domenici (R-New Mexico), former Senator Sam Nunn (D-Georgia), and Senator Bob Kerrey (D-Nebraska)
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1973· 1 entry
The Journal of Political Economy posthumously reprinted his 1926 paper on the statistical relation between unemployment and inflation, retitling it as "I discovered the Phillips curve"
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1947· 1 entry
Died 1947-04-29.
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1938· 1 entry
Awarded Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (1938).
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1936· 1 entry
Published “THE USE OF MULTIPLE MEASUREMENTS IN TAXONOMIC PROBLEMS” in Annals of Eugenics — cited 10,760 times.
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1933· 1 entry
Awarded Fellow of the Econometric Society (1933).
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1930· 2 entries
Published “The genetical theory of natural selection” — cited 8,941 times.
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Founded, with Ragnar Frisch and Charles F
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1929· 2 entries
Famously predicted, nine days before the crash, that stock prices had "reached what looks like a permanently high plateau
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Awarded Josiah Willard Gibbs Lectureship (1929).
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1924· 1 entry
Fisher wrote an anti-smoking article for the Reader's Digest, which argued that "tobacco lowers the whole tone of the body and decreases its vital power and resistance
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1913· 1 entry
And sold to Kardex Rand (later Remington Rand) in 1925
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1898· 1 entry
Fisher was diagnosed with tuberculosis, the same disease that had killed his father
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1893· 1 entry
Married Margaret Hazard, a granddaughter of Rhode Island industrialist and social reformer Rowland G
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1892· 1 entry
As Mathematical Investigations in the Theory of Value and Prices, was a rigorous development of the theory of general equilibrium
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1891· 1 entry
Fisher received the first PhD in economics granted by Yale
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1888· 1 entry
Having also been elected as a member of the Skull and Bones society
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1867· 1 entry
Born 1867-02-27.
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