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The theory of interest : as determined by impatience to spend income and opportunity to invest it / by Irving Fisher
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TIME PREFERENCE (IMPATIENCE)

NEB YCRJC

This yeap

Next year

Hew York Interest Rate

London Interest Rate

This year

Hext year

LONDON CHART 4

Interest Rates Between Different Years Comparable With ExchangeRates Between Different places.

All problems of local prices, exchange, and interest, actand react on each other in many ways. The problem oftime foreign exchange, or forward foreign exchange,is indicated by the diagonals, and involves both interestand foreign exchange, i.e., both a time to time factor anda place to place factor combined in the same transaction.Both exchange and interest rates, as well as local prices,would be, theoretically, combined if, say, present NewYork wheat were quoted in terms of future London coal.

In this book, for simplicity, the problems of price de-terminations, in one place and at one time, are supposedto have been solved . 5 We start with the values of the

'For a statement of the theory of valuation in general, see Walras, Elements d 1 Economic Politique Pure; Pareto, Cours dEconomic Poli-tique ; also, Manuel dEconomic Politique.

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