Search Results for Wesley Mitchell

.... In What Happens during Business Cycles . By Wesley C. Mitchell. New York: NBER. Burns , Arthur. 1952 . Wesley Clair Mitchell: The Economic Scientist . New York: NBER. Burns , Arthur , and Wesley Mitchell. 1946 . Measuring Business Cycles . New York: NBER. Coats , A. W. 1992...

.... 1949a . The Economic Mind in American Civilization , vol. 3 . New York: Viking. Dorfman , Joseph. 1949b . Obituary: Wesley C. Mitchell. Economic Journal 59 ( September ): 448 -58. Field , Alexander J. 1981 . The Problem with Neoclassical Institutional Economics: A Critique...

...Luca Fiorito; Massimiliano Vatiero The aim of this article is to assess whether Wesley Clair Mitchell, as a reformer, ever expressed concern over the biological quality of individuals and whether he did somehow share the Progressive Era faith in eugenics as an instrument for improving American...

..., 1880-1930 . 1931 . New York: Columbia University Press. Clark , John Maurice. 1931 . Wesley C. Mitchell's Contribution to the Theory of Business Cycles. In Methods in Social Science, A Case Book , edited by Stuart A. Rice. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Galsworthy , John 1931...

..., not addressed to his ideal formula per se, but rather aimed at the very idea that a universal formula for index numbers could be singled out. The most prominent individuals involved in this debate were Wesley Mitchell, Warren Persons, Correa Walsh (Fisher's only supporter), and Allyn Young. Among them...

...Thomas A. Stapleford This article explores the recent history of the data revolution in economics, arguing that many of its features parallel the vision for statistical economics championed by Wesley Mitchell during the interwar period. Seeing the data revolution as kin to Mitchell’s hopes...

... and analytical statistics. In his courses, willing to interconnect Vilfredo Pareto’s and Wesley Mitchell’s economics, Wilson emphasized that a sound scientific attitude required connecting economics with data, if only in idealized conditions. Finally, the paper argues that Wilson’s lasting influence in economics...

...Wesley Mitchell; Malcolm Rutherford Copyright © 1996 by Duke University Press 1996 Money Economy and Modern Civilization (paper read before the Cross-Roads Club of Stanford, May 6,1910) Wesley Mitchell Edited by Malcolm Rutherford The term “money economy” was brought...

... Corporation and Private Property . New York:Macmillan. Biddle, Jeff. 1998 . Social Science and the Making of Social Policy: Wesley Mitchell's Vision. In The Economic Mind in America: Essays in the History of American Economics , edited by Malcolm Rutherford, 43 -79. London:Routledge. Blaug, Mark...

... into the discussion. As I suggest, Friedman's contacts with Popper were probably more relevant to the influence on Friedman than his study of the philosopher (Frazer 1988, 117, 173). And, to be sure, Fried- man could have been influenced only in the most indirect way by John Dewey (say, via Wesley Mitchell...

... and other contributors have nothing to say of the work of Wesley Mitchell and H. J. Davenport. Perhaps for lack of a constituency, the outstanding institutionalist work of R. Dixon and Eberhardt at the University of Pittsburgh in the 1950s continues to be dis- regarded. The case of Texas...

...-1929 American economic or stock forecasters: Roger Bab- son, Irving Fisher, John Moody, the Harvard Economic Service of Charles J. Bullock and Warren Persons, and Wesley Mitchell. An earlier version of the chapter on the Harvard Economic Society appeared in this journal in spring 2009...

..., and mounting political instability. Among economists, American institutionalists were most attracted to psychology, notably Wesley Clair Mitchell and John Maurice Clark. Herbert Davenport, Thomas Nixon Carver, and Frank Knight were among the critics. It is suggested that the cultural context of America may...

...-spot-like spread of institutionalist thinking described by William James (Pragmatism, lecture 5). By comparison, Dugger and other contributors have nothing to say of the work of Wesley Mitchell and H. J. Davenport. Perhaps for lack of a constituency, the outstanding institutionalist work of R...

... Wesley Mitchell, while still an undergraduate, suggested “ lengthy and careful1 investigation ’ ’ as the answer.2 The first major investigation with theoretical import at which Mitchell tried his hand had to do with the causes of the Civil War inflation in the North. Mitchell’s work...

... a political and sociological perspective. Mulberg seems to agree with Wesley Mitchell that “economics has the moral purpose of obtaining rational control for societal wel- fare” (115). Hence, for Mulberg, “defining welfare is of course the central problem...

... and accelerator models. American Economic Review 47 ( December ): 859 -83. Mints , Lloyd W. 1945 . History of banking theory . Chicago. Mitchell , Wesley C. 1925 . Quantitative analysis in economic theory. American Economic Review 15 ( March ): 1 -12. National Bureau of Economic...

... regular faculty members-Ernest Moore, Lincoln Hutchinson. Carl Plehn, Adolph C. Miller, and Wesley C. Mitchell. University President Benjamin Wheeler had recruited Miller, a California alumnus and teacher of Mitchell and Veblen at the University of Chicago, to be chairman of the new Berkeley...

... in 1923–24. With an introduction from Ludwig von Mises to Professor Jeremiah W. Jenks he worked as Jenks’s research assistant for six months and registered as a doctoral student at New York University,also attending lectures at Columbia,es- pecially those of Wesley Mitchell. On his return from America...

... and Brothers . McMahon Theresa S. 1925 . Social and Economic Standards of Living . Boston : D. C. Heath . Mitchell Wesley C. 1912 . “The Backward Art of Spending Money.” American Economic Review 2 ( June ): 269 – 81 . ———. 1913 . Business Cycles . Berkeley : University...