Edward R Dewey and the Case for Cycles

First published: 2010

Brief summary

CRI blog post about Edward R. Dewey’s role in cycle research and the empirical laws of cycles.

Article

Edward R Dewey and the Case for Cycles

Posted on 2010/07/11 by Ray Tomes

After training as an economist, Edward R Dewey devoted his entire working life to the study of cycles. This was because, following the 1929 crash and resulting depression, he found that cycles were more useful for predicting economic events than any amount of economic theory that he had learned.

Some of the fundamental empirical laws of cycles found by Dewey and others over the years were:

Additional summary

The remainder discusses Dewey’s empirical cycle findings and provides a historical foundation for interdisciplinary cycle studies.

Source details and credits

• Source / publisher: CRI Blog / Ray Tomes
• Source type: Blog post
• URL type: WWW
• Credits: CRI Blog / Ray Tomes
• URL: https://cyclesresearchinstitute.wordpress.com/2010/07/11/edward-r-dewey-and-the-case-for-cycles/