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Commentary On Irving Fisher, James Tobin
Commentary On Irving Fisher, James Tobin
Cowles Foundation Discussion Papers
Schumpeter regarded “The Nature of Capital and Income” as one of the three of Fisher’s contributions to general theory generally recognized, at the time Schumpeter was writing, as “of first-class importance and originality.” The other two were Fisher’s “Mathematical Investigations” (1982) and his statistical method for measuring the marginal utility of income (1972). Nature is the bridge, both in sequence and in logic, between the other two great works, the timeless general equilibrium theory of the 1892 dissertation and the extension of that theory to intertemporal choices in production and consumption in the theory of interest.
Economic Equilibrium And Soviet Economic Reform, Herbert E. Scarf
Economic Equilibrium And Soviet Economic Reform, Herbert E. Scarf
Cowles Foundation Discussion Papers
The paper, prepared for a Roundtable on Major Economic Problems in the U.S. and the U.S.S.R., discusses some aspects of price theory — in particular, the theory of general equilibrium — which may offer some theoretical insights about the economic problems to be encountered during the transition from Socialism to private markets in the Soviet Union.