"Professor Fisher's The Purchasing Power of Money is dedicated to Simon Newcomb, from whom vid Professor Kemmerer the PT = MV formula ultimately derives. Newcomb was not a professional economist but a mathematician (Professor of Mathematics in the U.S. Navy and at Johns Hopkins). His Principles of Political Economy, published in 1886, is one of those original works which a fresh scientific mind, not perverted by having read too much of the orthodox stuff, is able to produce from time to time in a half -formed subject like economics."
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John Maynard Keynes (1930). A Treatise on Money. Vol. 1, p. 233
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Irving Fisher
(February 27, 1867 – April 29, 1947) was an American economist, statistician, inventor, and Progressive social campaigner.
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