George M. Kuznets (; July 28, 1909 – August 3, 1986) was an American

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. A member of the

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's department of agricultural and resource economics, he specialized in

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. Regarded by his peers as a pioneer in quantitative research, Kuznets was appointed a fellow of the

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in 1982, the highest honor of his profession. He was also elected as a

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, in 1960. Born in into a

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(now in

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), Kuznets moved to the US from Warsaw alone after the death of his mother in 1926 and obtained a Ph.D. in

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from the

. His older brother

Simon Kuznets Simon Smith Kuznets ( ; rus, Семён Абра́мович Кузне́ц, p=sʲɪˈmʲɵn ɐˈbraməvʲɪtɕ kʊzʲˈnʲets; April 30, 1901 – July 8, 1985) was a Russian-born American economist and statistician who received the 1971 Nobe ...

was also an economist and won the 1971

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* 1909 births 1986 deaths Stanford University alumni 20th-century American economists Fellows of the American Statistical Association Polish emigrants to the United States {{US-economist-stub