TY  - BOOK
AU  - Friedman, Walter A.
TI  - Fortune Tellers: The Story of America's First Economic Forecasters
SN  - 9780691169194
U1  - 330.092​273 
PY  - 2014///
CY  - Princeton
PB  - Princeton University Press
KW  - Economic Forecasting - United States - History - 20th Century
KW  - Business Forecasting
KW  - Economists - United States - Biography
KW  - Economists
N1  - 1. Roger W. Babson: The rule of past patterns
"The fundamental law of 'action reaction'"
2. Irving Fisher: The economy as a mathematical model
"The velocity of money"
3. John Moody: The bright light of transparency
"An aggregation of over 440 large industrial, franchise and transportation Trusts"
Gallery of business and forecasting charts
5. C. J. Bullock and Warren Persons: The Harvard ABC chart
"The statistician ... attempts to find a specific analogy existing in an orderly universe"
5. Wesley Mitchell and Herbert Hoover: forecasting as policy
"If we could foresee the business cycle, there would be none"
6. Visions of the future
ER  -