Simon Kuznets
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Updated 2026-05-29
Kuznets shaped how we measure economic growth through data. The Russian-born economist won the 1971 Nobel in Economics for work that fundamentally changed development economics.
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Simon Smith Kuznets 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."
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