Wesley Clair Mitchell, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Wesley Clair Mitchell

American statistician

Date of Birth: 05-Aug-1874

Place of Birth: Rushville, Illinois, United States

Date of Death: 29-Oct-1948

Profession: economist, university teacher, statistician

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Leo

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.