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Simon Smith Kuznets (April 30, 1901–July
8/July 9|9, 1985) was an economist who won the
1971 Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in
Memory of Alfred Nobel "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 was born in Kharkiv, Ukraine but moved to the
United States in 1922 and was educated at Columbia
University. He taught at the University of
Pennsylvania, Johns Hopkins University and Harvard
University.

== His work and its impact on Economics ==
Kuznets is credited with revolutionising
econometrics, and this work is credited with
fueling the Keynesian Revolution. His most
important book is  National Income and Its
Composition, 1919–1938. Published in 1941,
it is one of the most historically significant
works on Gross National Product. His work on the
business cycle and disequilibrium aspects of
economic growth helped launch development
economics. He also studied inequality over time,
and his results formed the Kuznets Curve.

==References==
* Fogel, Robert William. Simon S. Kuznets : April
30, 1901-July 9, 1985 (2000).

== External links ==
*
http://www.econlib.org/library/Enc/bios/Kuznets.ht
ml econlib.org - an efficient summary of Kuznets
and his work
*
http://www.nobel-winners.com/Economics/simon_kuzne
ts.html nobel-winners.com
*
http://cepa.newschool.edu/het/profiles/kuznets.htm
cepa.newschool.edu
*
http://werdet.atspace.com/bin/kuznets-lecture.html
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.
* http://www.nber.org/papers/W7787.pdf A recent
biography of Kuznets.