Simon Kuznets

Simon Kuznets
Simon Kuznets
	Kuznets in 1971
Born	April 30, 1901; Pinsk, Russian Empire (now Belarus)
Died	July 8, 1985 (aged 84); Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S.
Burial place	Sharon Memorial Park
Citizenship	United States
Academic background
Education	Kharkiv Institute of Commerce; Columbia University (BS, MA, PhD)
Doctoral advisor	Wesley Clair Mitchell
Academic work
Discipline	Econometrics, development economics
School or tradition	Institutional economics
Institutions	NBER; Columbia University,; Harvard University (1960–1971); Johns Hopkins University (1954–1960); University of Pennsylvania (1930–1954)
Doctoral students	Baidyanath Misra; Milton Friedman; Richard Easterlin; Stanley Engerman; Robert Fogel; Subramanian Swamy; Lance Taylor
Awards	Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences (1971)
Website	Information at IDEAS / RePEc;

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."

Kuznets made a decisive contribution to the transformation of economics into an empirical science and to the formation of quantitative economic history.^[1] Kuznets pioneered the concept of gross domestic product, which seeks to capture all economic production in a state by a single measure.^[2]^[3]^[4]

^ Abramovitz, Moses (2009). "Simon Kuznets 1901–1985". The Journal of Economic History. 46: 241–246. doi:10.1017/S0022050700045642.. He has been called "one of the most important economists of the twentieth century" by Robert Whaples in a 2018 interview.
^ "GDP and the National Accounts: One of the Great Inventions of the 20th Century". www.bea.gov.
^ "Meet the new GDP prototype that tracks inequality". NPR. 2022.
^ Dickinson, Elizabeth (October 29, 2024). "GDP: a brief history". Foreign Policy. Retrieved October 29, 2024.

Simon Kuznets
Kuznets in 1971
Born	(1901-04-30)April 30, 1901 Pinsk, Russian Empire (now Belarus)
Died	July 8, 1985(1985-07-08) (aged 84) Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S.
Burial place	Sharon Memorial Park
Citizenship	United States

Academic background
Education	Kharkiv Institute of Commerce Columbia University (BS, MA, PhD)
Doctoral advisor	Wesley Clair Mitchell
Academic work
Discipline	Econometrics, development economics
School or tradition	Institutional economics
Institutions	NBER Columbia University, Harvard University (1960–1971) Johns Hopkins University (1954–1960) University of Pennsylvania (1930–1954)
Doctoral students	Baidyanath Misra Milton Friedman Richard Easterlin Stanley Engerman Robert Fogel Subramanian Swamy Lance Taylor


Awards	Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences (1971)

Website	Information at IDEAS / RePEc