George Kuznets

George Kuznets
Born(1909-07-28)July 28, 1909
DiedAugust 3, 1986(1986-08-03) (aged 77)
Alma materStanford University
Scientific career
FieldsEconomics
InstitutionsUniversity of California, Berkeley
ThesisThe organization of psychoneurotic dispositions as measured by the psychological questionnaire (1941)
Doctoral studentsMichael Perelman
Arnold Zellner

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]

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.

  1. ^ GEORGE KUZNETS (1909-1986), Social Security Death Index
  2. ^ "Farm Economist George Kuznets Dies in Berkeley". Los Angeles Times. August 10, 1986.
  3. ^ View/Search Fellows of the ASA Archived 2016-06-16 at the Wayback Machine, accessed 2016-07-23.
  4. ^ Backhouse, Roger, ed. (2000). Exemplary Economists. Elgar. p. 169. ISBN 1840644052.