The two regular monthly meetings of the Chicago Chapter were devoted to a consideration of “The Business Cycle: A Presentation of the Fundamental Causes of Periods of Prosperity and Depression, and the Conditions which make possible the Forecast of their Rise and Fall.” Appended are the views of a Banker, an Economist, an Educational Director and a Statistician on this topic of perennial interest to American industry.
THE BUSINESS CYCLE—GENERAL THEOREM
Dr. Walter Lichtenstein, M.A., Ph.D.
Executive Secretary, First National Bank, Chicago
THE BUSINESS CYCLE – CONSIDERED SPIRALLY
Dr. Horace Secrist
Director of the Bureau of Business Research, Northwestern University
THE BUSINESS CYCLE – CONSIDERED PRACTICALLY
F. L. Ham
Educational Director, Business Administration Course La Salle Extension University
THE BUSINESS CYCLE – CONSIDERED GRAPHICALLY
Edward P. Farwell
The Babson Organization
