Simon Kuznets

Born: 1901-04-30 in Pinsk, Russian Empire (now Belarus)

Gender: male

Field: American economist and statistician (1901–1984)

Biography

Simon Smith Kuznets 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."

Nobel Prize Details

The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 1971

Awarded on: 1971-10-15

"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"

Affiliations:

Harvard University – Cambridge, MA, USA

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