FOUR WORKS BY FISHER. FISHER, IRVING. 1867-1947. The Rate of Interest. New York: The Macmillan C...

FOUR WORKS BY FISHER. FISHER, IRVING. 1867-1947. The Rate of Interest. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1907. Publisher's gray cloth, spine lettered in gilt. Custom cloth folding case. WITH: clipped signature of Fisher laid-in ('Irving Fisher'). Provenance Hon. Stanley C. Wisniewski (pencil inscription) in each volume in lot. RARE FIRST EDITION COPY OF ONE OF FISHER'S MAJOR CONTRIBUTIONS TO ECONOMICS. A follow-up to his 1906 work on capital which revealed the crucial role of the interest rate, Rate of Interest examines in depth how the interest rate is determined. Fisher saw the two works as so intertwined that he lobbied Macmillan to advertise the second as a companion volume while promoting the first. WITH: The Theory of Interest As Determined by Impatience to Spend Income and Opportunity to Invest It. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1930. Publisher's blue cloth, spine lettered and ruled in gilt, upper cover in blind. Custom cloth folding case. FIRST EDITION. Begun as a revision to his 1907 The Rate of Interest, Theory of Interest presents a reworked and more clearly expressed statement of the relationship between capital, investment, interest rates and prices that emphasizes the contribution of both time-preference and productivity theories to a proper understanding of a theory of interest. WITH: 'A Reply to Critics,' OFFPRINT from: Quarterly Journal of Economics, Vol. XXIII, May 1909. Publisher's printed wrappers, staple-bound, minor wear, printed slip 'Compliments of Irving Fisher' laid-in. Folding archival paper chemise and folder. RARE OFFPRINT ISSUE of Fisher's defense of his Nature of Capital and Income and Rate of Interest against criticism from John Common and A.W. Flux. WITH: The Purchasing Power of Money. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1911. Publisher's green cloth, spine lettered and ruled in gilt, minor wear. Custom cloth folding case. Provenance: H. Longman, London School of Economics (ink inscription). FIRST EDITION of his important contribution to monetary theory. For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com For further information about this lot please visit the lot listing