Simon Kuznets
American economist and statistician (1901–1984) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Simon Smith Kuznets (/ˈkʌznɛts/ KUZ-nets; Russian: Семён Абра́мович Кузне́ц, IPA: [sʲɪˈmʲɵn ɐˈbraməvʲɪtɕ kʊzʲˈnʲets]; April 30, 1901 – July 8, 1985) was a Russian-born American economist and statistician who received the 1971 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences "for his empirically founded interpretation of economic growth which has led to new and deepened insight into the economic and social structure and process of development."
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Simon Kuznets | |
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Born | (1901-04-30)April 30, 1901 |
Died | July 8, 1985(1985-07-08) (aged 84) Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S. |
Burial place | Sharon Memorial Park |
Nationality | American |
Education | Kharkiv Institute of Commerce Columbia University (BS, MA, PhD) |
Academic career | |
Institution | NBER Columbia University, Harvard University (1960–1971) Johns Hopkins University (1954–1960) University of Pennsylvania (1930–1954) |
Field | Econometrics, development economics |
School or tradition | Institutional economics |
Doctoral advisor | Wesley Clair Mitchell |
Doctoral students | Baidyanath Misra Milton Friedman Richard Easterlin Stanley Engerman Robert Fogel Subramanian Swamy Lance Taylor |
Awards | Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences (1971) |
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Kuznets made a decisive contribution to the transformation of economics into an empirical science and to the formation of quantitative economic history.[1]