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This collection is a manuscript of a lecture titled “National Income: the measure and its meaning” given by Simon Kuznets at John Hopkins University on the measurement of national income. Simon Smith Kuznets (1901-1985) was an economist who received the 1971 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences. Kuznets held professional appointments in economics and statistics at the University of Pennsylvania (1930-1954), John Hopkins University (1954-1960), and Harvard University (1960-1971).

Overview: Simon Smith Kuznets (1901-1985), was a Russian-born American economist and statistician who received the 1971 Nobel Prize for Economics "for his empirically founded interpretation of economic growth which has led to new and deepened insight into the economic and social structure and process of development." The Papers of Simon Smith Kuznets document Kuznets’s academic and professional activities from 1923 to 1988, his theory of economic growth, and his contributions to the development of...

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The collection consists of writings by Simon Smith Kuznets from 1928 to 1981. Simon Smith Kuznets (1901-1985) was the George F. Baker Professor of Economics at Harvard University from 1960 to 1971. Kuznets received the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 1971 for his comparative studies of the economic growth of developed and under-developed nations.