The Purchasing Power of Money

A classic book by one of America’s greatest mathematical economists. Fisher states in the introduction that “The purpose of this book is to set forth the principles determining the purchasing power of money and to apply those principles to the study of historical changes in that purchasing power, including in particular the recent change in “the cost of living,” which has aroused world-wide discussion.”
The Purchasing Power of Money, its Determination and Relation to Credit, Interest and Crises, by Irving Fisher, assisted by Harry G. Brown (New York: Macmillan, 1922). New and Revised Edition.
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- Assistant: Harry G. Brown
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Table of Contents
- PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION
- PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION
- SUGGESTIONS TO READERS
- ADDENDUM
- CHAPTER I: PRIMARY DEFINITIONS2
- CHAPTER II: PURCHASING POWER OF MONEY AS RELATED TO THE EQUATION OF EXCHANGE
- CHAPTER III: INFLUENCE OF DEPOSIT CURRENCY ON THE EQUATION AND THEREFORE ON PURCHASING POWER
- CHAPTER IV: DISTURBANCE OF EQUATION AND OF PURCHASING POWER DURING TRANSITION PERIODS
- CHAPTER V: INDIRECT INFLUENCES ON PURCHASING POWER
- CHAPTER VI: INDIRECT INFLUENCES (continued)
- CHAPTER VII: INFLUENCE OF MONETARY SYSTEMS ON PURCHASING POWER
- CHAPTER VIII: INFLUENCE OF QUANTITY OF MONEY AND OTHER FACTORS ON PURCHASING POWER AND ON EACH OTHER
- CHAPTER IX: THE DISPERSION OF PRICES MAKES NECESSARY AN INDEX OF PURCHASING POWER
- CHAPTER X: THE BEST INDEX NUMBERS OF PURCHASING POWER
- CHAPTER XI: STATISTICAL VERIFICATION. GENERAL HISTORICAL REVIEW
- CHAPTER XII: STATISTICS OF RECENT YEARS
- CHAPTER XIII: THE PROBLEM OF MAKING PURCHASING POWER MORE STABLE
- APPENDIX TO CHAPTER II
- APPENDIX TO CHAPTER III
- APPENDIX TO CHAPTER V
- APPENDIX TO CHAPTER VI
- APPENDIX TO CHAPTER VII
- APPENDIX TO CHAPTER VIII
- APPENDIX TO CHAPTER X
- APPENDIX TO CHAPTER XII
- ADDENDUM FOR SECOND EDITION
- APPENDIX TO THE SECOND EDITION, ON "STANDARDIZING THE DOLLAR"
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