American economist, researcher, and author, Simon Kuznets (1901-1985) won the Nobel Prize in 1971 for pioneering the use of a nation's gross national product to analyze economic growth. Simon Kuznets was born in Kharkov, Russia, in 1901. At an early...

US economist and statistician of Russian origin. After emigration to the USA in 1922, he was educated at Columbia University and began his distinguished career in project with Wesley MITCHELL on national income at the US NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC...

Simon Smith Kuznets (April 30, 1901 – July 8, 1985) was an American economist at Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania who won the 1971 Nobel Prize in Economics "for his empirically founded interpretation of economic growth which has...

JEL E00 * E50 ********** The evolution of inequality and its impact on aggregate outcomes of an economy is the subject of various strands of past and contemporary economic research. The nature of how inequality changes over time, and its economic...

The three points raised by Augustin Kwasi Fosu on Kuznets's inverted-U hypothesis are disregarded as inconsequential. It is maintained that the post-war US does not conform to the Kuznets-pattern, that inequality does not apparently decline at a monotonous pace even with a high level...