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.

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. Provided by Wikipedia
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    Business cycles, the problem and its setting / by Mitchell, Wesley Clair, 1874-1948

    Published 1927
    Book
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    Lecture notes on types of economic theory / by Mitchell, Wesley Clair, 1874-1948

    Published 1949
    Book