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Preface ix Introduction 1 Chapter 1 Roger W. Babson: Rule of Past Patterns 12 The fundamental law of 'action reaction' Chapter 2 Irving Fisher: Economy as a Mathematical Model 51 The velocity of money Chapter 3 John Moody: Bright Light of Transparency 86 An aggregation of over 440 large industrial, franchise and transportation Trusts Gallery of Business and Forecasting Charts Chapter 4 C. J. Bullock and Warren Persons: Harvard ABC Chart 128 The statistician ... attempts to find a specific analogy existing in an orderly universe Chapter 5 Wesley Mitchell and Herbert Hoover: Forecasting as Policy 166 If we could foresee the business cycle, there would be none Chapter 6 Visions of the Future 194 Postscript 209 Acknowledgments 213 Notes 217 Index 261