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ECONOMIST

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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Simon Kuznets has received more than 635,517 page views. His biography is available in 59 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 56 in 2019). Simon Kuznets is the 25th most popular economist (up from 27th in 2019), the 11th most popular biography from Belarus (up from 12th in 2019) 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 25 out of 315. Before him are Henri Fayol, Amartya Sen, John Law, Michael Porter, Joseph Stiglitz, and Herbert A. Simon. After him are Anne Robert Jacques Turgot, William Petty, Carl Menger, Barack Obama Sr., Klaus Schwab, and Alexander Hamilton.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1901, Simon Kuznets ranks 27. Before him are André Malraux, Princess Märtha of Sweden, Princess Alice, Duchess of Gloucester, Joaquín Rodrigo, Margaret Mead, and Jean Dubuffet. After him are Max Euwe, Andrey Vlasov, Milton H. Erickson, Witold Pilecki, Mohamed Naguib, and Robert Bresson. Among people deceased in 1985, Simon Kuznets ranks 16. Before him are László Bíró, Simone Signoret, Rock Hudson, Charles Francis Richter, Dian Fossey, and Jean Dubuffet. After him are Lon Nol, Charlotte, Grand Duchess of Luxembourg, Philip Larkin, Anne Baxter, John Franklin Enders, and Ian Stewart.

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In Belarus

Among people born in Belarus, Simon Kuznets ranks 11 out of 330. Before him are Alexander Lukashenko (1954), Felix Dzerzhinsky (1877), Tadeusz Kościuszko (1746), Stanisław August Poniatowski (1732), Andrei Gromyko (1909), and Chaim Weizmann (1874). After him are Yitzhak Shamir (1915), Meyer Lansky (1902), Sviatopolk I of Kiev (978), Chaim Soutine (1893), Ryszard Kapuściński (1932), and Hacı I Giray (1397).

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Among ECONOMISTS In Belarus

Among economists born in Belarus, Simon Kuznets ranks 1. 

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