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Simon Kuznets

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Simon Kuznets

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Also known as Simon Smith Kuznets

Amerikaans econoom (1901-1985)

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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.

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Nobel Prize

  • The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel1971

    “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”

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Instance of
human
Given name
Simon
Gender
male
Citizenship
United States
Place of birth
Pinsk
Place of death
Cambridge
Occupation
statistician
Position held
chairperson
Employer
University of Pennsylvania
Languages spoken
English language
Doctoral advisor
Wesley Clair Mitchell
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Simon Kuznets 1971b.jpg
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date of birth
1901-04-30
date of death
1985-07-09
member of
Econometric Society
Commons category
Simon Kuznets
name in native language
Simon Smith Kuznets
ethnic group
Lithuanian Jews
maintained by WikiProject
WikiProject Mathematics
interested in
economics
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Simon Smith Kuznets (Pinsk, Keizerrijk Rusland (huidig Wit-Rusland), 30 april 1901 - Cambridge (Massachusetts), 8 juli 1985) was een Amerikaans econoom. Kuznets' voornaamste bijdrage aan de economische wetenschap was zijn empirische onderzoek naar de ontwikkeling van economische groei en inkomensverdelingen als functie van industrialisering, waarvoor hij in 1971 de prijs van de Zweedse Rijksbank voor economie won. Kuznets lanceerde in de jaren 50 de theorie dat de inkomensongelijkheid binnen een land stijgt tijdens de ontwikkeling van een kapitalistische economie, om uiteindelijk weer te dalen als de ontwikkeling een bepaald niveau heeft bereikt. Deze theorie wordt grafisch weergegeven in de naar hem genoemde Kuznetscurve. Zij werd ondertussen weerlegd door de grotere inkomensongelijkheid in de Verenigde Staten en elders, zoals gedocumenteerd door Thomas Piketty in zijn boek Capital in the Twenty-First Century.

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