Simon Kuznets

Simon Smith Kuznets (; ; April 30, 1901 – July 8, 1985) was an American economist and statistician.

He 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.". He has been called "one of the most important economists of the twentieth century" by Robert Whaples in a recent interview.

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