SIMON KUZNETS
Simon Kuznets is the winner of the 1971 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences for his extensive work on economic growth research. Kuznets was an economist and a statistician that had roots in both Russia and America. In 1869, he set the standard for the computation of the United State’s GDP or the economic research on national income. Kuznets analyzed and did research on measurement of savings, consumption, and investment that greatly influenced Keynesian economics and econometrics. The trade cycles that he researched was named after him: ‘Kuznets cycles’.
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