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	Born in Saugerties, New York, '''Irving Fisher''' was a famous economist who cured at the [[~~Trudeau Sanatorium\|~~Trudeau Sanatorium]]. According to [[Wikipedia:Irving_Fisher\|Wikipedia]], "He was an American economist, statistician, inventor, Progressive social campaigner, and eugenicist. He was one of the earliest American neoclassical economists, though his later work on debt deflation has been embraced by the Post-Keynesian school. Joseph Schumpeter described him as 'the greatest economist the United States has ever produced', an assessment later repeated by James Tobin and Milton Friedman."		Born in Saugerties, New York, '''Irving Fisher''' was a famous economist who cured at the [[Trudeau Sanatorium]]. According to [[Wikipedia:Irving_Fisher\|Wikipedia]], "He was an American economist, statistician, inventor, Progressive social campaigner, and eugenicist. He was one of the earliest American neoclassical economists, though his later work on debt deflation has been embraced by the Post-Keynesian school. Joseph Schumpeter described him as 'the greatest economist the United States has ever produced', an assessment later repeated by James Tobin and Milton Friedman."

	Also according to Wikipedia, "As a proponent of Eugenics he helped found the [[Wikipedia:Race_Betterment_Foundation\|Race Betterment Foundation]] in 1906. He also defended [[Wikipedia:Eugenics\|eugenics]], serving in the scientific advisory board of the [[Wikipedia:Eugenics_Record_Office\|Eugenics Record Office]] and as first president of the [[Wikipedia:American_Eugenics_Society\|American Eugenics Society]].<sup>[[Wikipedia:Irving_Fisher#cite_note-34\|[34]]]"</sup>		Also according to Wikipedia, "As a proponent of Eugenics he helped found the [[Wikipedia:Race_Betterment_Foundation\|Race Betterment Foundation]] in 1906. He also defended [[Wikipedia:Eugenics\|eugenics]], serving in the scientific advisory board of the [[Wikipedia:Eugenics_Record_Office\|Eugenics Record Office]] and as first president of the [[Wikipedia:American_Eugenics_Society\|American Eugenics Society]].<sup>[[Wikipedia:Irving_Fisher#cite_note-34\|[34]]]"</sup>

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	Born in Saugerties, New York, '''Irving Fisher''' was a famous economist who cured at the [[Trudeau~~%20Sanatorium~~\|Trudeau Sanatorium]]. According to [[Wikipedia:Irving_Fisher\|Wikipedia]], "He was an American economist, statistician, inventor, Progressive social campaigner, and eugenicist. He was one of the earliest American neoclassical economists, though his later work on debt deflation has been embraced by the Post-Keynesian school. Joseph Schumpeter described him as 'the greatest economist the United States has ever produced', an assessment later repeated by James Tobin and Milton Friedman."		Born in Saugerties, New York, '''Irving Fisher''' was a famous economist who cured at the [[Trudeau Sanatorium\|Trudeau Sanatorium]]. According to [[Wikipedia:Irving_Fisher\|Wikipedia]], "He was an American economist, statistician, inventor, Progressive social campaigner, and eugenicist. He was one of the earliest American neoclassical economists, though his later work on debt deflation has been embraced by the Post-Keynesian school. Joseph Schumpeter described him as 'the greatest economist the United States has ever produced', an assessment later repeated by James Tobin and Milton Friedman."

	Also according to Wikipedia, "As a proponent of Eugenics he helped found the [[Wikipedia:Race_Betterment_Foundation\|Race Betterment Foundation]] in 1906. He also defended [[Wikipedia:Eugenics\|eugenics]], serving in the scientific advisory board of the [[Wikipedia:Eugenics_Record_Office\|Eugenics Record Office]] and as first president of the [[Wikipedia:American_Eugenics_Society\|American Eugenics Society]].<sup>[[Wikipedia:Irving_Fisher#cite_note-34\|[34]]]"</sup>		Also according to Wikipedia, "As a proponent of Eugenics he helped found the [[Wikipedia:Race_Betterment_Foundation\|Race Betterment Foundation]] in 1906. He also defended [[Wikipedia:Eugenics\|eugenics]], serving in the scientific advisory board of the [[Wikipedia:Eugenics_Record_Office\|Eugenics Record Office]] and as first president of the [[Wikipedia:American_Eugenics_Society\|American Eugenics Society]].<sup>[[Wikipedia:Irving_Fisher#cite_note-34\|[34]]]"</sup>

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	[[File:Irvingfisher.jpg\|right\|thumb\|\|Irving Fisher (Wikipedia)]]~~'''Born: '''February 27, 1867~~		[[File:Irvingfisher.jpg\|right\|thumb\|\|Irving Fisher (Wikipedia)]]

	'''Died: '''April 29, 1947		'''Born: '''February 27, 1867

			'''Died: '''April 29, 1947

	'''Married:'''		'''Married:'''

	'''Children: '''two daughters		'''Children: '''two daughters

	Born in Saugerties, New York, '''Irving Fisher''' was a famous economist who cured at the [[Trudeau%20Sanatorium\|Trudeau Sanatorium]]. According to [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irving_Fisher\|Wikipedia]], "He was an American economist, statistician, inventor, Progressive social campaigner, and eugenicist. He was one of the earliest American neoclassical economists, though his later work on debt deflation has been embraced by the Post-Keynesian school. Joseph Schumpeter described him as 'the greatest economist the United States has ever produced', an assessment later repeated by James Tobin and Milton Friedman."

	~~Also according to Wikipedia~~, ~~"As~~ a ~~proponent of Eugenics he helped found the~~ [[~~https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Race_Betterment_Foundation~~\|~~Race Betterment Foundation~~]] ~~in 1906~~. ~~He also defended~~ [[~~https~~:~~//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugenics~~\|~~eugenics~~]], ~~serving in the scientific advisory board of the [[https://en~~.~~wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugenics_Record_Office\|Eugenics Record Office]] and as first president~~ of ~~the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Eugenics_Society\|~~American ~~Eugenics Society]]~~.~~<sup>[[https://en~~.~~wikipedia.org/wiki/Irving_Fisher#cite_note-34\|[34]]]~~"~~</sup>~~		Born in Saugerties, New York, '''Irving Fisher''' was a famous economist who cured at the [[Trudeau%20Sanatorium\|Trudeau Sanatorium]]. According to [[Wikipedia:Irving_Fisher\|Wikipedia]], "He was an American economist, statistician, inventor, Progressive social campaigner, and eugenicist. He was one of the earliest American neoclassical economists, though his later work on debt deflation has been embraced by the Post-Keynesian school. Joseph Schumpeter described him as 'the greatest economist the United States has ever produced', an assessment later repeated by James Tobin and Milton Friedman."

	~~In 1895, at age 28~~, he ~~moved from~~ the ~~mathematics department at Yale to the economics department~~, ~~and became head of~~ the ~~Department~~ of ~~Political Economy at Yale. In~~ the ~~fall of 1898, a persistent fever was diagnosed~~ as ~~tuberculosis, the ailment that had killed his father. He sought treatment over the course~~ of the ~~next three years at the Trudeau Sanatorium and also Colorado Springs. Fisher would be kept from New Haven and his colleagues for three years~~.		Also according to Wikipedia, "As a proponent of Eugenics he helped found the [[Wikipedia:Race_Betterment_Foundation\|Race Betterment Foundation]] in 1906. He also defended [[Wikipedia:Eugenics\|eugenics]], serving in the scientific advisory board of the [[Wikipedia:Eugenics_Record_Office\|Eugenics Record Office]] and as first president of the [[Wikipedia:American_Eugenics_Society\|American Eugenics Society]].<sup>[[Wikipedia:Irving_Fisher#cite_note-34\|[34]]]"</sup>

	~~Colin Read~~, ~~Chair~~ of the Department of ~~Economics and Finance~~ at ~~SUNY Plattsburgh~~, ~~wrote in~~ his ~~book, ''The Life Cyclists: Fisher, Keynes, Modigliani and Friedman, ''"~~He ~~would not return to his work~~ at ~~New Haven until 1901, physically cured of tuberculosis but afflicted with a lifelong exaggerated concern regarding his health~~ and ~~mortality~~. ~~This new personality quirk~~ would ~~have a profound effect on his work, his insights into mortality,~~ and ~~in the way he would devote~~ his ~~energies~~."		In 1895, at age 28, he moved from the mathematics department at Yale to the economics department, and became head of the Department of Political Economy at Yale. In the fall of 1898, a persistent fever was diagnosed as tuberculosis, the ailment that had killed his father. He sought treatment over the course of the next three years at the [[Trudeau Sanatorium]] and also Colorado Springs. Fisher would be kept from New Haven and his colleagues for three years.

			Colin Read, Chair of the Department of Economics and Finance at SUNY Plattsburgh, wrote in his book, ''The Life Cyclists: Fisher, Keynes, Modigliani and Friedman, ''"He would not return to his work at New Haven until 1901, physically cured of tuberculosis but afflicted with a lifelong exaggerated concern regarding his health and mortality. This new personality quirk would have a profound effect on his work, his insights into mortality, and in the way he would devote his energies."

	Information provided by Colin Read during a visit to the Saranac Laboratory Museum, August, 2014		Information provided by Colin Read during a visit to the [[Saranac Laboratory Museum]], August, 2014



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[[File:Irvingfisher.jpg|right|]][[File:Irvingfisher.jpg|right|thumb||Irving Fisher (Wikipedia)]]'''Born: '''February 27, 1867

'''Died: '''April 29, 1947

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'''Children: '''two daughters

Born in Saugerties, New York, '''Irving Fisher''' was a famous economist who cured at the [[Trudeau%20Sanatorium|Trudeau Sanatorium]]. According to [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irving_Fisher|Wikipedia]], "He was an American economist, statistician, inventor, Progressive social campaigner, and eugenicist. He was one of the earliest American neoclassical economists, though his later work on debt deflation has been embraced by the Post-Keynesian school. Joseph Schumpeter described him as 'the greatest economist the United States has ever produced', an assessment later repeated by James Tobin and Milton Friedman."

Also according to Wikipedia, "As a proponent of Eugenics he helped found the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Race_Betterment_Foundation|Race Betterment Foundation]] in 1906. He also defended [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugenics|eugenics]], serving in the scientific advisory board of the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugenics_Record_Office|Eugenics Record Office]] and as first president of the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Eugenics_Society|American Eugenics Society]].<sup>[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irving_Fisher#cite_note-34|[34]]]"</sup>

In 1895, at age 28, he moved from the mathematics department at Yale to the economics department, and became head of the Department of Political Economy at Yale. In the fall of 1898, a persistent fever was diagnosed as tuberculosis, the ailment that had killed his father. He sought treatment over the course of the next three years at the Trudeau Sanatorium and also Colorado Springs. Fisher would be kept from New Haven and his colleagues for three years.

Colin Read, Chair of the Department of Economics and Finance at SUNY Plattsburgh, wrote in his book, ''The Life Cyclists: Fisher, Keynes, Modigliani and Friedman, ''"He would not return to his work at New Haven until 1901, physically cured of tuberculosis but afflicted with a lifelong exaggerated concern regarding his health and mortality. This new personality quirk would have a profound effect on his work, his insights into mortality, and in the way he would devote his energies."

Information provided by Colin Read during a visit to the Saranac Laboratory Museum, August, 2014

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