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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
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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
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Simon Kuznets, the economist who helped standardize the measurement, said in 1962, "Distinctions must be kept in mind between quantity and quality of growth."
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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The term EKC is based on its similarity to the time-series pattern of income inequality described by Simon Kuznets in 1955.
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