Quote of the day
This dead of midnight is the noon of thought,
And Wisdom mounts her zenith with the stars.
At this still hour the self-collected soul
Turns inward, and beholds a stranger there
Of high descent, and more than mortal rank;
An embryo God; a spark of fire divine.
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)







