George Kuznets
| George Kuznets | |
|---|---|
| Born | July 28, 1909 Pinsk, Russian Empire |
| Died | Script error: The function "death_date_and_age" does not exist. Berkeley, California |
| Nationality | Belarusian American |
| Fields | Economics |
| Institutions | University of California, Berkeley |
| Alma mater | Stanford University |
| Doctoral students | Michael Perelman Arnold Zellner |
George M. Kuznets (July 28, 1909 – August 3, 1986)[1] was a Belarusian American economist. A member of the University of California, Berkeley's department of agricultural and resource economics, he specialized in agricultural economics. Regarded by his peers as a pioneer in quantitative research, Kuznets was appointed a fellow of the American Agricultural Economics Association in 1982, the highest honor of his profession.[2]
Born in into a Jewish family at Pinsk, Russian Empire (now in Belarus), Kuznets moved to the US with his family in the 1920s and obtained a Ph.D. in psychometrics from Stanford University.[3] His older brother Simon Kuznets was also an economist and won the 1971 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences.
References
- ↑ GEORGE KUZNETS (1909-1986), Social Security Death Index
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