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ECONOMIST

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 132,009 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia. Wesley Clair Mitchell is the 254th most popular economist, the 4,848th most popular biography from United States and the 84th most popular American Economist.

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  • 16

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.90

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.87

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among ECONOMISTS

Among economists, Wesley Clair Mitchell ranks 254 out of 315. Before him are Tony Atkinson, Leo Huberman, Kenichi Ohmae, David Card, Leszek Balcerowicz, and Ellen Swallow Richards. After him are Paul Sweezy, Grigory Yavlinsky, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Herman Daly, Philippe Van Parijs, and Alexander Chayanov.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1874, Wesley Clair Mitchell ranks 120. Before him are Vladimir Grigoryevich Fyodorov, Teresa Feoderovna Ries, Jerzy Żuławski, William Foulke, Francis Lane, and Princess Maria Immaculata of Bourbon-Two Sicilies. After him are Albin Lermusiaux, Władysław Grabski, Nasrullah Khan, Dimitrios Golemis, Billy Meredith, and Iraj Mirza. Among people deceased in 1948, Wesley Clair Mitchell ranks 113. Before him are Phraya Manopakorn Nititada, Alfred Kerr, Henning Jakob Henrik Lund, Aldo Leopold, Jāzeps Vītols, and Hulusi Behçet. After him are Richard von Kühlmann, Nikolai Podvoisky, José Vianna da Motta, Carole Landis, Ernst Herzfeld, and C. Aubrey Smith.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Wesley Clair Mitchell ranks 4,848 out of 18,182. Before him are Elaine May (1932), Rube Goldberg (1883), George Washington Williams (1849), Bob Crane (1928), Vincent Gigante (1928), and Murray Leinster (1896). After him are Charles Hallahan (1943), Virginia Rappe (1895), Tony Randall (1920), Virgil Abloh (1980), Tammi Terrell (1945), and Vanessa del Rio (1952).

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Among ECONOMISTS In United States

Among economists born in United States, Wesley Clair Mitchell ranks 84. Before him are Eric Maskin (1950), Greg Mankiw (1958), John R. Commons (1862), Edward Chamberlin (1899), Leo Huberman (1903), and Ellen Swallow Richards (1842). After him are Paul Sweezy (1910), Arthur Laffer (1940), Gordon Tullock (1922), Deirdre McCloskey (1942), Max O. Lorenz (1876), and Robert Barro (1944).

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