Wesley Clair Mitchell
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.
Wesley Clair Mitchell | |
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| Born | August 5, 1874 Rushville, Illinois, U.S. |
| Died | October 29, 1948 (aged 74) New York City, U.S. |
| Academic career | |
| Institution | NBER 1920–45 Columbia University 1913–44 UC Berkeley 1903–12 University of Chicago 1899–1903 |
| Field | Political economics Macroeconomics |
| School or tradition | Institutional economics |
| Alma mater | University of Chicago |
| Doctoral advisor | J. Laurence Laughlin |
| Doctoral students | Simon Kuznets Arthur F. Burns Raymond J. Saulnier |
| Influences | Thorstein Veblen John Dewey |
| Contributions | Empirical research on Business cycles |
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| Macroeconomics |
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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.
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