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Wesley C. Mitchell was born in Rushville, Illinois, on 5 August 1874 and died on 29 October 1948. Most of his professional life was spent at Columbia University (1913–19, 1922–44) and as Director of Research at the National Bureau of Economic Research in New York (1920–45).
This chapter was originally published in The New Palgrave: A Dictionary of Economics, 1st edition, 1987. Edited by John Eatwell, Murray Milgate and Peter Newman
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Burns, A.F. (ed.). 1952. Wesley Clair Mitchell: The economic scientist. New York: National Bureau of Economic Research.
Mitchell, L.S. 1953. Two lives: The story of Wesley Clair Mitchell and myself. New York: Simon & Schuster.
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Moore, G.H. (1987). Mitchell, Wesley Clair (1874–1948). In: Durlauf, S., Blume, L. (eds) The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-349-95121-5_745-1
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