Quote of the day
Bring me men to match my mountains,
Bring me men to match my plains,
Men with empires in their purpose,
And new eras in their brains.
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)