page_title: Wesley Clair Mitchell
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context_page_description: Wesley Clair Mitchell 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 as one of the several "American saints in economics" born after 1860.
context_section_description: 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.
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