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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 States United States Russian Empire Russian 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
doctoral student
  • Robert Fogel
    • end time: 1/1/1963
  • Stanley Engerman
    • end time: 1/1/1962
  • Subramanian Swamy
    • end time: 1/1/1965
  • Yoram Ben-Porath
    • end time: 1/1/1967
  • Lance Taylor
    • end time: 1/1/1968
  • Richard Easterlin
    • end time: 1/1/1953
  • Robert E. Gallman
    • end time: 1/1/1956
  • Morris Hamburg
    • end time: 1/1/1952
  • Jacob Schmookler
    • end time: 1/1/1951
  • Milton Friedman
    • end time: 1/1/1946
  • J. Parker Bursk
    • end time: 1/1/1931
  • W. Lee Hansen
  • Harley Henry Hinrichs
position held
  • chairperson
    • end time: 1/1/1955
    • start time: 1/1/1954
member of
  • American Philosophical Society
    • start time: 1/1/1948
  • Econometric Society
    • start time: 1/1/1939
  • American Association for the Advancement of Science
  • Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
  • National Academy of Sciences
  • American Academy of Arts and Sciences
educated at
  • Pinsk Realschule
  • Columbia University
  • Kharkiv Commercial Institute
employer
  • Johns Hopkins University
  • Harvard University
  • University of Pennsylvania
occupation
  • economist
  • statistician
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