“Interesting and thoughtful essays.”
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“Mr Fisher’s essays will interest everybody who cares either for history or for politics, and, most of all, those who care for both.”
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FISHER, IRVING. Stabilizing the dollar. *$3.50 Macmillan 338.5
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“[In this book] first there is a twenty-five page summary. Then there is the main body of the text, 125 pages, in which the same arguments that appear in the summary are amplified. Finally there is an appendix of 171 pages in which practically the same points are gone over again, only this time with a strong emphasis upon ‘technical details.’ Thus we have a boiled down encyclopedia addressed to three separate levels of attention, or perhaps of intellect, all within the modest confines of one small volume. Professor Fisher believes that the high cost of living is caused by a shrunken dollar, just as the low cost of living from 1873 to 1896 followed an enlarged dollar. The purchasing power of the dollar is at all times, so he easily proves, uncertain and variable. His remedy is to make the dollar more or less valuable, according as prices are rising or falling by adding or substracting from its weight in gold.”—Unpartizan Review
“The close association between economic and political problems at the present day warrants for this book the attention of political scientists.”
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