Quote of the day
The most important American addition to the World Experience was the simple surprising fact of America. We have helped prepare mankind for all its later surprises.
Wesley Clair Mitchell
Born: August 5, 1874
Died: October 29, 1948 (aged 74)
Bio: Wesley Clair Mitchell 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.
Known for:
- Business cycles, the problem and its setting (1913)
- The backward art of spending money (1937)
- Business Cycles and Their Causes (1941)







