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Over the following century, economists like John Stuart Mill, Walter Bagehot, Irving Fisher, Knut Wicksell, and John Maynard Keynes devised a list of steps to take in order to avoid or cure a depression.

Begin R, Masse S, Rola Pleszczynski M, Boctor M Drapeau G (1987) Asbestos exposure dose bronchoalveolar milieu response in asbestos workers and the sheep model evidences of a threshold for chrysotile induced fibrosis. In Fisher GL Gallo MA ed. Asbestos toxicity.

Hoenig and Richard Fisher, the president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, have been leading the charge on this issue within the Federal Reserve System. Both of them emphasize that too complex to manage is almost synonymous with too big to manage, at least within the US banking system today.

Admittedly, not all of this giving is altruistic. New York s Lincoln Center announced last month that the billionaire entertainment industry mogul David Geffen has donated 100 million toward the renovation of its concert facility, Avery Fisher Hall, on the condition that it is renamed David Geffen Hall.

Irving Fisher s prescient warning in 1933 about such a debt deflation spiral resonates strongly today, given that public and private debt levels are at or near historic highs in many countries. Especially instructive is the 2.2 price decline in Greece for the 12 months ending in July the most severe example of ongoing deflation in the advanced countries and counterproductive to an orderly solution to the country s problems.

Still others, like Richard Fisher, the outgoing president of the Dallas Fed, have inveighed against the special role of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. Reflecting the New York Fed's heavy regulatory responsibilities, owing to its proximity to the seat of finance, its president has a permanent seat on the Federal Open Market Committee, the body that sets the Fed's benchmark interest rate.

In the interwar Great Depression, the economist Irving Fisher accurately described the process of debt deflation, in which lenders, worried by the deterioration of their asset quality, called in their loans, pushing borrowers to liquidate assets. That, in turn, merely drove down prices further, leading to more credit rationing, bankruptcies, and bank failures.