Simon Kuznets - Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel — 1971
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Simon Kuznets

Prize
Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel — 1971
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
Citizenship
United StatesUnited StatesRussian EmpireRussian Empire
Languages
English
date of birth
4/30/1901
place of birth
Pinsk
date of death
7/8/1985
place of death
Cambridge
Lived
84 years
occupation
  • economist
  • statistician
educated at
  • Kharkiv Commercial Institute
  • Columbia University
  • Pinsk Realschule
employer
  • Harvard University
  • Johns Hopkins University
  • University of Pennsylvania
position held
  • chairperson
    • start time: 1954
    • end time: 1955
member of
  • Econometric Society
    • start time: 1939
  • Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
  • National Academy of Sciences
  • American Association for the Advancement of Science
  • American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • American Philosophical Society
    • start time: 1948
doctoral student
  • W. Lee Hansen
  • Harley Henry Hinrichs
  • Morris Hamburg
    • end time: 1952
  • J. Parker Bursk
    • end time: 1931
  • Lance Taylor
    • end time: 1968
  • Stanley Engerman
    • end time: 1962
  • Robert Fogel
    • end time: 1963
  • Subramanian Swamy
    • end time: 1965
  • Milton Friedman
    • end time: 1946
  • Jacob Schmookler
    • end time: 1951
  • Robert E. Gallman
    • end time: 1956
  • Yoram Ben-Porath
    • end time: 1967
  • Richard Easterlin
    • end time: 1953
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