Simon Smith Kuznets (/kʊzˈnɛts/ /ˈkʌznɛts/; Russian: Семё́н Абра́мович Кузне́ц IPA: [sʲɪˈmʲɵn ɐbˈraməvʲɪtɕ kʊzʲˈnʲets]; April 30 1901 – July 8 1985) was a Belarusian-American economist statistician demographer and economic historian who won 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 empirical science and to the formation of quantitative economic history.
alma mater
Columbia University, Kharkiv National University of Economics
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