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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Born in the Russian Empire on April 30, 1901, Kuznets emigrated to America and trained as an economist at a moment when the field still relied more on theory than measurement. He set about changing that, pioneering methods to quantify economic production and turning economics into an empirical science grounded in data. His work on gross domestic product gave governments a single number to capture all output within their borders — a tool that reshaped policy and planning worldwide. The effort earned him the 1971 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences for his empirically founded interpretation of growth and development. He died July 8, 1985, having spent decades building the statistical architecture that still underpins how we understand prosperity.