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I have seen it claimed that Wesley Mitchell's 1913 book _Business  
Cycles_ introduced the term "Business Cycle" to the literature.  As  
opposed, I assume, to terms such as "Trade Cycle."  Whether or  
not Mitchell was the coiner of the term, his use of "Business  
Cycle" was not an accident, but was related to his view of cycles  
as a phenomenon that arises only within a developed pecuniary or  
business set of institutions.  Can anyone tell me of earlier uses of  
the term "Business Cycle"?   
 
Malcolm Rutherford 
University of Victoria 
 
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