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Simon Kuznets

1901 - 1985

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Simon Smith Kuznets ( KUZ-nets; Russian: Семён Абра́мович Кузне́ц, IPA: [sʲɪˈmʲɵn ɐˈbraməvʲɪtɕ kʊzʲˈnʲets]; April 30, 1901 – July 8, 1985) was a Russian-born 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. Kuznets pioneered the concept of gross domestic product, which seeks to capture all economic production in a state by a single measure. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Simon Kuznets is the 37th most popular economist (down from 28th in 2019), the 11th most popular biography from Belarus and the most popular Belarusian Economist.

Simon Kuznets is most famous for his work on the development of national income accounting. He also developed the idea of the Kuznets Curve, which is a theory that economic growth eventually leads to a reduction in inequality.

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Among ECONOMISTS

Among economists, Simon Kuznets ranks 37 out of 414. Before him are Henri Fayol, Anne Robert Jacques Turgot, Elinor Ostrom, Charles Cooley, Maurice Allais, and Eugen Böhm von Bawerk. After him are Carl Menger, Michael Porter, Barack Obama Sr., Léon Walras, Wassily Leontief, and Leonid Hurwicz.

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Among people born in 1901, Simon Kuznets ranks 33. Before him are Mohamed Naguib, J. D. Bernal, Max Euwe, Vincent du Vigneaud, Witold Pilecki, and Ricardo Zamora. After him are Hugo Gunckel Lüer, Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej, Princess Sophie of Hohenberg, Henning von Tresckow, Salvatore Quasimodo, and Margaret Mead. Among people deceased in 1985, Simon Kuznets ranks 18. Before him are Carl Schmitt, Jean Dubuffet, László Bíró, Simone Signoret, Philip Larkin, and Rock Hudson. After him are Margaret Hamilton, Dian Fossey, Paul Flory, Lon Nol, Charlotte, Grand Duchess of Luxembourg, and Henry Cabot Lodge Jr..

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Among people born in Belarus, Simon Kuznets ranks 11 out of 368. Before him are Menachem Begin (1913), Felix Dzerzhinsky (1877), Tadeusz Kościuszko (1746), Chaim Weizmann (1874), Andrei Gromyko (1909), and Stanisław August Poniatowski (1732). After him are Chaim Soutine (1893), Meyer Lansky (1902), Sviatopolk I of Kiev (978), Olga Korbut (1955), Stanisław Moniuszko (1819), and Ryszard Kapuściński (1932).

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Among economists born in Belarus, Simon Kuznets ranks 1. 

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