About George Kuznets
Lived 1909 – 1986 (aged 77). George Kuznets was an economist.
George M. Kuznets (; July 28, 1909 – August 3, 1986) was an 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. He was also elected as a Fellow of the American Statistical Association, in 1960.
Born in into a Jewish family in Kiev, Russian Empire (now in Ukraine), Kuznets moved to the US from Warsaw alone after the death of his mother in 1926 and obtained a Ph.D. in psychometrics from the University of California, Berkeley. His older brother Simon Kuznets was also an economist and won the 1971 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences.
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Who was George Kuznets?
Belarusian American economist
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George Kuznets was born on 28 July 1909 in Pinsk.
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George Kuznets died on 3 August 1986 in Berkeley.
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George Kuznets was an economist.
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