Quote of the day
I went on all over the States, ranting poems to enthusiastic audiences that, the week before, had been equally enthusiastic about lectures on Railway Development or the Modern Turkish Essay.
Simon Patten
Born: 1852
Died: 1922 (aged 70)
Bio: Simon Nelson Patten was an influential economist and the chair of the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania.
Known for:
- The new basis of civilization (1907)
- Theory of prosperity (1902)
- The Development Of English Thought (1899)
- The consumption of wealth (1889)
- Economic basis of protection (1890)







