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Irving Fisher and Debt Deflation
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Irving Fisher and Debt Deflation

Irving Fisher was an economist who underwent quite a transition in his thinking, before arriving at Debt Deflation as a major cause of downturns. Steve Keen explains why the transformation.
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Irving Fisher was an American economist whose book The Purchasing Power of Money looked at the relationship between money supply and price levels. In fact, to many he is seen as the father of monetarism, but on this week’s podcast Steve Keen explains how Fisher’s struggles with debt led him to develop his thinking on debt deflation as the cause of major…

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