Simon Kuznets

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Simon Kuznets
Kuznets in 1971
Born	(1901-04-30)April 30, 1901 Pinsk, Russian Empire
Died	July 8, 1985(1985-07-08) (aged 84) Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S.
Burial place	Sharon Memorial Park
Citizenship	United States
Academic background
Education	Kharkov 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, romanized: Semyon Abramovich Kuznets, IPA: [sʲɪˈmʲɵn ɐˈbraməvʲɪtɕ kʊzʲˈnʲets]; April 30, 1901 – July 8, 1985) was a Russian-born American economist and statistician. He 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. Kuznets pioneered the concept of gross domestic product, which seeks to capture all economic production in a state by a single measure.