Wesley Clair Mitchell
1874
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1948
photo credits: Wikimedia Commons
country of citizenship: United States of America
languages spoken, written or signed: English
educated at: University of Chicago
occupation: economist, statistician, university teacher
award received: Messenger Lectures, Francis A. Walker Medal, Fellow of the Econometric Society, Fellow of the American Statistical Association
position held: president
Wesley Clair Mitchell (August 5, 1874 – October 29, 1948) 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."Paul Samuelson named Mitchell (along with Harry Gunnison Brown, Allyn Abbott Young, Henry Ludwell Moore, Frank Knight, Jacob Viner, and Henry Schultz) as one of the several "American saints in economics" born after 1860. Source: Wikipedia (en)
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