George M. Kuznets (/ˈkʌznɛts/; July 28, 1909 – August 3, 1986)[1] 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.[2] He was also elected as a Fellow of the American Statistical Association, in 1960.[3]
George Kuznets | |
|---|---|
| Born | July 28, 1909 |
| Died | August 3, 1986 (aged 77) |
| Alma mater | Stanford University |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Economics |
| Institutions | University of California, Berkeley |
| Thesis | The organization of psychoneurotic dispositions as measured by the psychological questionnaire (1941) |
| Doctoral students | Michael Perelman Arnold Zellner |
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.[4] His older brother Simon Kuznets was also an economist and won the 1971 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences.
References
edit- ^ GEORGE KUZNETS (1909-1986), Social Security Death Index
- ^ "Farm Economist George Kuznets Dies in Berkeley". Los Angeles Times. August 10, 1986.
- ^ View/Search Fellows of the ASA Archived 2016-06-16 at the Wayback Machine, accessed 2016-07-23.
- ^ Backhouse, Roger, ed. (2000). Exemplary Economists. Elgar. p. 169. ISBN 1840644052.
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