Simon Smith Kuznets (April 30, 1901 - July 8, 1985) was an American economist at Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania who won the 1971 Nobel Prize in Economics "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". Wikipedia
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Kuznets's life work was the collection and organistion of the national income accounts of the United States (1934, 1941, 1946), an accomplishment parallelling that of Richard Stone and James Meade in Great Britain. cepa.newschool.edu/het/profiles/kuznets.htm
Simon Kuznets is best known for his studies of national income and its components. Prior to World War I, measures of GNP were rough guesses at best. No government agency collected data to compute GNP, and no private economic researcher did so systematic www.econlib.org/library/Enc/bios/Kuznets.html
Simon Kuznets Prize Lecture Lecture to the memory of Alfred Nobel, December 11, 1971 Modern Economic Growth: Findings and Reflections 1. werdet.atspace.com/bin/kuznets-lecture.html
For a discussion of the economic epoch concept see Simon Kuznets, Modern Economic Growth: Rate, Structure, and Spread , Yale University Press, New Haven, Conn., 1966, pp. www.geocities.com/econ_555jim/kuznets-lecture.html
