Elementary Principles of Economics

From Americas first celebrated economist comes this 1912 textbook with a succinct yet highly informative introduction to economics as it was understood and practiced in the early 20th century. Fisher provides in-depth discussions of basic topics including: . wealth property and income . credit and debt . currency prices and monetary systems . supply and demand capital and labor . poverty . and more. American economist IRVING FISHER (1867-1947) was professor of political economy at Yale University. Among his many books are The Rate of Interest (1907) Why Is the Dollar Shrinking? A Study in the High Cost of Living (1914) and Booms and Depressions (1932). _____________________________ ALSO FROM COSIMO: Fishers The Purchasing Power of Money: Its Determination and Relation to Credit Interest and Crises and Mathematical Investigations in the Theory of Value and Prices and Appreciation and Interest