Wesley Clair Mitchell was an American economist known for his empirical work on business cycles and for guiding the National Bureau of Economic Research in its first decades.
Mitchell was referred to as Thorstein Veblen's "star student." Wikipedia
Born: August 5, 1874, Rushville, IL
Died: October 29, 1948 (age 74 years), New York, NY
Notable students: Arthur F. Burns, Simon Kuznets, Moses Abramovitz, and more
Contributions: Empirical research on Business cycles
School or tradition: Institutional economics
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