Quote of the day
How full of trifles everything is! It is only one's thoughts that fill a room with something more than furniture.
Arthur F. Burns
Born: August 27, 1904
Died: June 26, 1987 (aged 82)
Bio: Arthur Frank Burns was an American economist. His career alternated between academia and government. From 1927 to the 1970s, Burns taught and researched at Rutgers University, Columbia University, and the National Bureau of Economic Research.
Known for:
- Prosperity without inflation (1957)
- Measuring business cycles (1946)
- The frontiers of economic knowledge (1954)