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Irving Fisher, an Uncommon card
Irving Fisher was an American economist, statistician, inventor, eugenicist and progressive social campaigner.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- History
- ATK
- 75
- DEF
- 73
- Power
- 148
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 44,000
Power 148 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 75 % of WikiCards cards.
Irving Fisher quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Irving Fisher card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
Fisher made important ______ to utility theory and general equilibrium.
Answer
contributions. Fisher made important contributions to utility theory and general equilibrium. From the Irving Fisher article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Byzantine bureaucracy and aristocracy. Byzantine bureaucracy and aristocracy 80 · Irving Fisher 75 · Joe Engle 70 · Lake Assal 67 ATK in WikiCards.
In a duel, each round asks a question like these about the opposing card, with 15 seconds to answer.
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- He was one of the earliest American neoclassical economists, though his later work on debt deflation has been embraced by the post-Keynesian school.
- Joseph Schumpeter described him as "the greatest economist the United States has ever produced", an assessment later repeated by James Tobin and Milton Friedman.
- Fisher made important contributions to utility theory and general equilibrium.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Irving Fisher article was read about 44,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 75 and blocks with 73: each hit it takes is cut by 29 %.
How to get Irving Fisher
Open packs. Each pack holds five cards drawn from real Wikipedia articles, the rarest last, and the fifth card is always Rare or better. The odds are shown in the game. A free pack arrives every hour and two can wait, and the Coins you win in duels buy more packs.
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- Lake AssalUncommon · Nature · ATK 67 DEF 81
- History of the IncasUncommon · History · ATK 76 DEF 72
- Joe EngleUncommon · History · ATK 70 DEF 78
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Irving Fisher (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Bain News Service, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
