Wesley Clair Mitchell

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Wesley Clair Mitchell (5 août 1874 – 29 octobre, 1948) est un économiste américain connu pour ses travaux empiriques sur le cycle et pour avoir dirigé pendant ses deux premières décennies le National Bureau of Economic Research.

[modifier] Principales publications de Mitchell

  • A History of Greenbacks, University of Chicago Press, 1903. ISBN 9780548150566
  • Gold Prices and Wages Under the Greenback Standard, University of California Press, 1908. ISBN 9780678002001
  • Business Cycles, University of California Press, 1913. ISBN 9780833724076
  • The Making and Using of Index Numbers, Bulletin of the US Bureau of Labor Statistics, 1915. ISBN 9780678000984
  • Business Cycles: The Problem and its Setting, New York: National Bureau of Economic Research, 1927. ISBN 9780405076084
  • The Backward Art of Spending Money: and other essays, New York: McGraw-Hill, 1937. ISBN 9780765806116
  • Measuring Business Cycles (with A.F. Burns), New York: National Bureau of Economic Research, 1946. ISBN 9780870140853
  • What Happens During Business Cycles, New York: National Bureau of Economic Research, 1951. ISBN 9780870140884
  • Types of Economic Theory from Mercantilism to Institutionalism, ed. Joseph Dorfman, 2 vols. New York: Augustus M. Kelley, 1967. (Reconstructed from Mitchell's lecture notes). ISBN 9780678002346

[modifier] Liens externes

[modifier] Bibliographie

  • Arthur F. Burns (ed.) Wesley Clair Mitchell: the Economic Scientist New York: National Bureau of Economic Research, 1952. Ce livre contient une bibliographie del'oeuvre de Mitchell. Burns a été gouverneur de la Réserve fédérale des États-Unis de 1970 à 1978.
  • Simon Kuznets (1949) Wesley Clair Mitchell, 1874-1948: An Appreciation, Journal of the American Statistical Association, 44, 126-131.
  • Joseph Schumpeter (1950) Wesley Clair Mitchell (1874-1948), Quarterly Journal of Economics, 64,139-155.
  • M. S. Morgan A History of Econometric Ideas, Cambridge 1990. Morgan compares Mitchell's approach to business cycles with both earlier and later approaches.