Simon Kuznets, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Simon Kuznets

economist

Date of Birth: 30-Apr-1901

Place of Birth: Pinsk, Brest Region, Belarus

Date of Death: 08-Jul-1985

Profession: economist, statistician

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Taurus

Simon Smith Kuznets (; Russian: ????? ????´????? ?????´?, IPA: [s??'m??n ?'bram?v??t? k?z?'n??ts]; April 30, 1901 – July 8, 1985) was an 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.