Biography
He was born into a Belarusian-Jewish family at Pinsk, Russian Empire (now in Belarus) and started his higher education in Kharkiv Commercial Institute, Ukraine, but moved to the United States in 1922 and was educated at Columbia University, receiving his B.Sc. in 1923, M.A. in 1924, and Ph.D. in 1926.
From 1925 to 1926, Kuznets spent time studying economic patterns in prices as the Research Fellow at the Social Science Research Council. It was this work that led to his book Secular Movements in Production and Prices, published in 1930.
From 1930 until 1936, Kuznets was a part-time professor at the University of Pennsylvania and as professor of Economics and Statistics from 1936 until 1954. He was elected to the Pi Gamma Mu social science honor society chapter at the University of Pennsylvania and actively served as a chapter officer in the 1940s. In 1954, Kuznets moved to Johns Hopkins University, where he was Professor of Political Economy until 1960. From 1960 until his retirement in 1971, Kuznets taught at Harvard University.
Simon Kuznets died on July 8, 1985, at the age of 84.
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