page_title: Simon Kuznets
hierarchical_section_title: Simon Kuznets
caption_attribution_description: 1971 Press Photo Nobel Prize winner in Economics Harvard's Dr. Simon Kuznets
context_page_description: Simon Smith Kuznets was an 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."
  Kuznets made a decisive contribution to the transformation of economics into an empirical science and to the formation of quantitative economic history.
context_section_description: Simon Smith Kuznets (/ˈkʌznɛts/; Russian: Семён Абра́мович Кузне́ц, IPA: [sʲɪˈmʲɵn ɐˈbraməvʲɪtɕ kʊzʲˈnʲɛts]; April 30, 1901 – July 8, 1985) was an 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."
  Kuznets made a decisive contribution to the transformation of economics into an empirical science and to the formation of quantitative economic history.
caption: Kuznets in 1971
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