Quote of the day
The Constitution was the expression not only of a political faith, but also of political fears. It was wrought both as the organ of the national interest and as the bulwark of certain individual and local rights.
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)