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Wesley Clair Mitchell

Wesley Clair Mitchell

American economist
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
Contributions: Empirical research on Business cycles
School or tradition: Institutional economics