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Comments on John Geanakoplos's “The Ideal Inflation‐Indexed Bond and Irving Fisher's Impatience Theory of Interest with Overlapping Generations”
Author(s) -
Shiller Robert J.
Publication year - 2005
Publication title -
american journal of economics and sociology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.199
H-Index - 38
eISSN - 1536-7150
pISSN - 0002-9246
DOI - 10.1111/j.1536-7150.2005.00364.x
Subject(s) - indexation , presentation (obstetrics) , worry , ideal (ethics) , inflation (cosmology) , positive economics , simple (philosophy) , economics , epistemology , philosophy , keynesian economics , law and economics , psychology , monetary policy , radiology , medicine , anxiety , physics , psychiatry , theoretical physics
A bstract A comment on the article by John Geanakoplos in this volume. It is refreshing to hear an account of Irving Fisher's views on risk and indexation juxtaposed with an account of our modern concerns with the same issues. It is interesting for me to hear this, partly since it shows that many of the issues we worry about today were concerns 70 or more years ago, and thus perhaps that these issues are indeed as deep and fundamental as we now think they are. But I found this history‐of‐thought presentation most interesting because it clarifies, by starting with simple notions that were on Irving Fisher's mind and moving forward, some of the critical issues concerning the innovations of indexation and Social Security reform.