Simon Kuznets

Simon Kuznets was a male economist and statistician born in Pinsk in 1901. He held citizenship in the Russian Empire and the United States. Kuznets was educated at Columbia University, where his doctoral advisor was Wesley Clair Mitchell. He served as a chairperson and worked at Harvard University, Johns Hopkins University, and the University of Pennsylvania.

He received the Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel. Kuznets was a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Philosophical Society, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He was recognized in the Nobel Economics collection and the American Academy Arts Sciences collection.

Kuznets died in Cambridge in 1985. He was of Lithuanian Jewish ethnicity and spoke English. His doctoral students included Milton Friedman, Richard Easterlin, Stanley Engerman, and Robert Fogel. He was interested in economics.