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 685,695 page views. His biography is available in 61 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 59 in 2019). Simon Kuznets is the 28th most popular economist (down from 24th 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 28 out of 414. Before him are Joseph Stiglitz, Alexander Hamilton, Jacques Delors, Anne Robert Jacques Turgot, Henri Fayol, and Carl Menger. After him are Michael Porter, Herbert A. Simon, Barack Obama Sr., William Petty, Elinor Ostrom, and Ragnar Frisch.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1901, Simon Kuznets ranks 28. Before him are Vittorio De Sica, Princess Alice, Duchess of Gloucester, André Malraux, Mohamed Naguib, Jean Dubuffet, and Joaquín Rodrigo. After him are Max Euwe, Salvatore Quasimodo, Ricardo Zamora, Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej, Andrey Vlasov, and Henning von Tresckow. Among people deceased in 1985, Simon Kuznets ranks 14. Before him are Simone Signoret, Fernand Braudel, Orson Welles, László Bíró, Jean Dubuffet, and Rock Hudson. After him are Charles Francis Richter, Dian Fossey, Lon Nol, Philip Larkin, Charlotte, Grand Duchess of Luxembourg, and Anne Baxter.

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In Belarus

Among people born in Belarus, Simon Kuznets ranks 11 out of 368. Before him are Chaim Weizmann (1874), Felix Dzerzhinsky (1877), Tadeusz Kościuszko (1746), Alexander Lukashenko (1954), Stanisław August Poniatowski (1732), and Andrei Gromyko (1909). After him are Chaim Soutine (1893), Meyer Lansky (1902), Olga Korbut (1955), Zhores Alferov (1930), Zalman Shazar (1889), and Ryszard Kapuściński (1932).

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Among ECONOMISTS In Belarus

Among economists born in Belarus, Simon Kuznets ranks 1. 

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