Wesley Clair Mitchell

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American economist academic economist human statistician

Wesley Clair Mitchell was an influential American economist and pioneer in the empirical study of business cycles, known for helping establish modern economic research institutions.

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Wesley Clair Mitchell canonical	5

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Predicate	Object
instanceOf	American economist ⓘ academic ⓘ economist ⓘ human ⓘ statistician ⓘ
academicDiscipline	economic history ⓘ macroeconomics ⓘ
approach	empirical and statistical analysis of economic phenomena ⓘ
awardReceived	American Economic Association presidency ⓘ
coFounderOf	National Bureau of Economic Research ⓘ
contributedTo	development of business cycle chronology in the United States ⓘ institutionalization of large-scale economic data collection ⓘ
countryOfCitizenship	United States of America ⓘ
dateOfBirth	1874-08-05 ⓘ
dateOfDeath	1948-10-29 ⓘ
doctoralAdvisor	Thorstein Veblen ⓘ
educatedAt	University of Chicago ⓘ
employer	Columbia University ⓘ New School for Social Research ⓘ University of California, Berkeley ⓘ
familyName	Mitchell ⓘ
fieldOfWork	business cycle theory ⓘ economic statistics ⓘ economics ⓘ empirical economics ⓘ
givenName	Wesley ⓘ
influencedBy	John Dewey ⓘ Thorstein Veblen ⓘ institutional economics ⓘ
knownFor	development of modern economic research methods ⓘ empirical study of business cycles ⓘ founding role in the National Bureau of Economic Research ⓘ
memberOf	National Bureau of Economic Research ⓘ
middleName	Clair ⓘ
movement	institutional economics ⓘ
name	Wesley Clair Mitchell self-link ⓘ
notableWork	Business Cycles (1913) ⓘ Business Cycles: The Problem and Its Setting (1927) ⓘ Gold, Prices, and Wages under the Greenback Standard ⓘ National Bureau of Economic Research studies in business cycles ⓘ surface form: Measuring Business Cycles (1946)
placeOfBirth	Rushville, Illinois ⓘ
placeOfDeath	New York City ⓘ
positionHeld	director of research at the National Bureau of Economic Research ⓘ president of the American Economic Association ⓘ
sexOrGender	male ⓘ
spouse	Lucy Sprague Mitchell ⓘ
workLocation	Berkeley ⓘ surface form: Berkeley, California Chicago ⓘ surface form: Chicago, Illinois New York City ⓘ

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National Bureau of Economic Research → foundedBy → Wesley Clair Mitchell ⓘ

Michał Kalecki → influencedBy → Wesley Clair Mitchell ⓘ

Simon Kuznets → doctoralAdvisor → Wesley Clair Mitchell ⓘ

President of the American Economic Association → hasNotableOfficeHolder → Wesley Clair Mitchell ⓘ

Wesley Clair Mitchell → name → Wesley Clair Mitchell self-link ⓘ