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Wesley Clair Mitchell

1874 - 1948

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Wesley Clair Mitchell (August 5, 1874 – October 29, 1948) 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. Mitchell was referred to as Thorstein Veblen's "star student." Paul Samuelson named Mitchell (along with Harry Gunnison Brown, Allyn Abbott Young, Henry Ludwell Moore, Frank Knight, Jacob Viner, and Henry Schultz) as one of the several "American saints in economics" born after 1860. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Wesley Clair Mitchell has received more than 141,867 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Wesley Clair Mitchell is the 283rd most popular economist (down from 252nd in 2019), the 5,774th most popular biography from United States (down from 4,836th in 2019) and the 91st most popular American Economist.

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Among ECONOMISTS

Among economists, Wesley Clair Mitchell ranks 283 out of 414. Before him are Arthur Laffer, Alexander Chayanov, Aušra Augustinavičiūtė, Gian Domenico Romagnosi, Paul Sweezy, and William Phillips. After him are Gordon Tullock, Herman Daly, Max O. Lorenz, Anthony Downs, Ragnar Nurkse, and Diego Abad de Santillán.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1874, Wesley Clair Mitchell ranks 157. Before him are Honus Wagner, Nikolai Semashko, Tadeusz Boy-Żeleński, Lucien Démanet, Penelope Delta, and Teresa Feoderovna Ries. After him are Photius II of Constantinople, Oskari Mantere, Henry Travers, Manuel Machado, Abraham Brill, and Steve Bloomer. Among people deceased in 1948, Wesley Clair Mitchell ranks 138. Before him are Siegmund von Hausegger, Mahmoud El Nokrashy Pasha, Jāzeps Vītols, Kathleen Cavendish, Marchioness of Hartington, Mickey Marcus, and Ernst Herzfeld. After him are Alfredo Baldomir, Marcel Brillouin, Yevgeniy Abalakov, Abraham Brill, Alfred Lacroix, and Gregg Toland.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Wesley Clair Mitchell ranks 5,774 out of 20,380. Before him are Mary Wickes (1910), David Spade (1964), Helen Prejean (1939), Laura Hope Crews (1879), George Pickett (1825), and Frederic Rzewski (1938). After him are Marcia Wallace (1942), Jean Shiley (1911), Rooney Mara (1985), Florence Bascom (1862), Jennifer Capriati (1976), and Godfrey Reggio (1940).

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Among ECONOMISTS In United States

Among economists born in United States, Wesley Clair Mitchell ranks 91. Before him are Dennis Meadows (1942), Joshua Angrist (1960), John R. Commons (1862), Leo Huberman (1903), Arthur Laffer (1940), and Paul Sweezy (1910). After him are Gordon Tullock (1922), Herman Daly (1938), Max O. Lorenz (1876), Anthony Downs (1930), Seth Godin (1960), and Michael Kremer (1964).

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