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{"value"=>"1010", "type"=>"local_mss"}
{"value"=>"MssCol 1010", "type"=>"local_call"}
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{"type"=>"inclusive", "normal"=>"1932/1938", "value"=>"1932-1938"}
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1932
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1938
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1932
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1932
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1938
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{"value"=>"Irving Fisher papers"}
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- repository
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{"value"=>"<span class=\"corpname\">The New York Public Library. Manuscripts and Archives Division.</span> <div class=\"address\"> <span class=\"addressline\">Stephen A. Schwarzman Building</span> <span class=\"addressline\">Fifth Avenue at 42nd Street, New York, NY 10018-2788</span></div>"}
- abstract
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{"value"=>"Irving Fisher (1867-1947) was an economist and professor of political economy at Yale University from 1898 to 1935. He specialized in monetary economics and in the application of mathematical techniques to the solution of economic problems. Collection consists of correspondence, articles, questionnaires, and printed matter concerning the use of scrip money. Correspondence of Fisher and his associate Hans R.L. Cohrssen is with businessmen, chambers of commerce, public officials, legislators, economists, and academicians. Topics include Fisher's plan to end the economic depression of the 1930s through the use of stamped scrip, and emergency measures taken to cope with the economic crisis. Also, scripts of articles by Fisher, Cohrssen and others; questionnaires and directives on the use of scrip; and printed ephemera relating to scrip money in America and abroad."}
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{"value"=>"Some materials in German and French"}
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{"value"=>"<p>Irving Fisher papers, Manuscripts and Archives Division, The New York Public Library</p>"}
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{"value"=>"Fisher, Irving, 1867-1947", "type"=>"persname"}
- bioghist
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{"value"=>"<p>Irving Fisher (1867-1947), economist and professor (1898-1935) of political economy at Yale specialized in monetary economics and in the application of mathematical techniques to the solution of economic problems. In his book <em render=\"italic\">Booms and Depressions</em> (1933) he advocated a stamped scrip, or, a non-hoardable, self- liquidating money as the surest means of recovering from the Great Depression the continuation of which was caused in large part according to Fisher by hoarded currency and frozen bank deposits.</p>"}
- scopecontent
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{"value"=>"<p>The papers consist of correspondence of Irving Fisher and of his associate, Hans R. L. Cohrssen, and of collateral papers relating to Fisher's plan to end the economic depression of the 1930s through the use of a stamped scrip, or non-hoardable, self-liquidating money; and to gather information on emergency measures such as barter, self-help and scrip exchange, taken by communities in North America and abroad as a means of coping with the economic crisis. The correspondence (in-coming and out-going) is with businessmen, chambers of commerce, public officials especially mayors and city managers, legislators, economists, academicians, and with persons proposing schemes to end the depression. Included is considerable correspondence relative to the use of stamp money at Hawarden, Iowa, and at Reading (Berks Co.), Pennsylvania, some correspondence is with persons in Austria, Canada, France, Germany and Switzerland. Some of the correspondence is in German. Some out-going correspondence by Cohrssen is on letterhead of Stable Money Association. The collateral papers include scripts of articles by Fisher, Cohrssen, and others; directive on the issuing and using of scrip money; questionnaires returned on the use of scrip in Granville, Ohio; and printed ephemera relating to scrip money in America and abroad.</p> <p>The correspondence and collateral papers have been pasted in fifteen folio volumes in somewhat overlapping chronological orders.</p>"}
- acqinfo
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{"value"=>"<p>September 1989, Received from Transfer from General research Division</p>"}
- processinfo
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{"type"=>"processing", "value"=>"<p>Accessioned by John Stinson, 12/8/1989</p>"}
- altformavail
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{"value"=>"<p>Entire collection (except v. 51) available on microfilm; New York Public Library</p>"}
- extent_statement
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4 linear feet (4 boxes); 4 reels