Quote of the day
In all works on Natural History, we constantly find details of the marvellous adaptation of animals to their food, their habits, and the localities in which they are found.
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)