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Frank Fetter

1863 - 1949

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Frank Albert Fetter (; March 8, 1863 – March 21, 1949) was an American economist of the Austrian School. Fetter's treatise, The Principles of Economics, contributed to an increased American interest in the Austrian School, including the theories of Eugen von Böhm-Bawerk, Friedrich von Wieser, and Ludwig von Mises. Fetter notably debated Alfred Marshall, presenting a theoretical reassessment of land as capital. Fetter's arguments have been credited with prompting mainstream economists to abandon the Georgist idea "that land is a unique factor of production and hence that there is any special need for a special theory of ground rent...." A proponent of the subjective theory of value, Fetter emphasized the importance of time preference and rebuffed Irving Fisher for abandoning the pure time preference theory of interest that Fisher had earlier espoused in his 1907 book, The Rate of Interest. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Frank Fetter is the 358th most popular economist, the 10,166th most popular biography from United States (down from 9,364th in 2019) and the 116th most popular American Economist.

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Among economists, Frank Fetter ranks 358 out of 414. Before him are John Neville Keynes, Henry Charles Carey, Robert Torrens, Jagdish Bhagwati, James Wilson, and Fatih Birol. After him are Mariana Mazzucato, Erik Lindahl, Arkady Dvorkovich, W. Michael Blumenthal, Nicholas Stern, Baron Stern of Brentford, and Rose Friedman.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1863, Frank Fetter ranks 171. Before him are Charles Le Goffic, Lucina Hagman, Alfredo Panzini, Mabel Cahill, Horatio Parker, and John Goodall. After him are Sándor Bródy, Walter Migula, Gonzalo Córdova, Reginald McKenna, John Bunny, and William Gibbs McAdoo. Among people deceased in 1949, Frank Fetter ranks 174. Before him are Linda Arvidson, Bill Robinson, Jack Lovelock, John Neville Keynes, Gregory Mathews, and Clarence Kingsbury. After him are Sidney Olcott, Leon Schlesinger, Elmer Clifton, Herbert Stothart, Philip Herbert Cowell, and William Nicholson.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Frank Fetter ranks 10,168 out of 20,380. Before him are Don Carlos Buell (1818), Blue Mitchell (1930), Alexander Hall (1894), David LaChapelle (1963), Paula Badosa (1997), and Spike Jones (1911). After him are Harold Budd (1936), Clint Dempsey (1983), Jay O. Sanders (1953), Cheryl Studer (1955), Karl Rove (1950), and T. Keith Glennan (1905).

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Among economists born in United States, Frank Fetter ranks 113. Before him are Don Patinkin (1922), Edith Abbott (1876), and John B. Taylor (1946). After him are Paul Craig Roberts (1939), Richard Florida (1957), Martin Feldstein (1939), Richard D. Wolff (1942), Kenneth Rogoff (1953), Michael Albert (1947), Paul Douglas (1892), Eric Lander (1957), and Peter Navarro (1949).

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