The BIS Irving Fisher Committee on Central Bank Statistics (IFC) is delighted to announce its upcoming 4th workshop on "Data Science in Central Banking,"...
2 months ago

This conference will focus on the recent factors that have been reshaping the landscape for external statistics: in particular, the consequences of the...
8 months ago

This document presents a plan for monetary reform, based on a proposal initially put forward by Frederick Soddy in the 1920s, and then subsequently by...
3 months ago

In the 1920s, leading thinkers—including the greatest economist America ever produced—focused their efforts on eugenics, preserving the Nordic stock,...
10 months ago

I won't name a single GOAT in money/macro, instead I'll consider three names: David Hume, Irving Fisher and Milton Friedman.
9 months ago

Fisher recognized “the evils of monetary instability”—that is, “periodic changes in the level of prices, producing alternate crises and...
68 months ago

Few American economists have the reputation Irving Fisher has—he is probably second only to Henry George as an economist of whom the American public was...
68 months ago

Fisher laid the foundation for much of modern monetary economics; Keynes called Fisher the “great-grandparent” of his own theories on how monetary forces...
188 months ago

Irving Fisher suddenly passed away on November 9, 2017 at the age of 79 after a brief illness. He was cremated as per his wishes.
83 months ago

The BIS Irving Fisher Committee on Central Bank Statistics (IFC) is organising recurrent workshops on "Data science in central banking" with a broad...
18 months ago