Simon Kuznets

The Kuznets curve is named for economist Simon Kuznets, a 1971 Nobel winner, in part for his research into economic development.

Week in Words Erin McKean 2011

Even Simon Kuznets, the pioneer of national income statistics in the 1930s, was aware of the limitations of GDP as a guide to society's wellbeing.

Big society or no, don't get distracted at the cash machine 2011

Simon Kuznets, the economist who helped standardize the measurement, said in 1962, "Distinctions must be kept in mind between quantity and quality of growth."

Craig and Marc Kielburger: A Better Measure 2009

Milton Friedman's empirical work on the monopoly rents allowed by doctor licensing was done with Simon Kuznets.

Samuelson vs. Friedman, David Henderson | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

Even the guy who invented the GDP, the late Russian-American economist Simon Kuznets, knew his system had significant shortcomings.

Allison Kilkenny: 'Third Quarter Growth' and Other Things That Mean Nothing To You 2009

An aside: the concept of GDP was developed by Simon Kuznets in the 1930's; it was not designed to be used as a measure of economic health:

Archive 2008-08-01 doyle 2008

An aside: the concept of GDP was developed by Simon Kuznets in the 1930's; it was not designed to be used as a measure of economic health:

Capitalism and biology class doyle 2008

Simon Kuznets and others once raised questions about whether there were stages in which growing inequality was temporarily inevitable.

Jeff Madrick: Is Income Equality Bad for Economic Growth? No 2008

Even the creator of the GDP Simon Kuznets in a 1934 report to the US Congress acknowledged the GDP's flaws as an economic indicator, The welfare of a nation can scarcely be inferred from a measure of national income.

Archive 2008-05-18 papabear 2008

The term EKC is based on its similarity to the time-series pattern of income inequality described by Simon Kuznets in 1955.

Environmental kuznets curve 2007