Nationality Belarusian American Name George Kuznets | Alma mater Stanford University Fields Economics | |
Born July 28, 1909
Pinsk, Russian Empire ( 1909-07-28 ) Institutions University of California, Berkeley Died August 3, 1986, Berkeley, California, United States Institution University of California, Berkeley Doctoral students Michael Perelman, Arnold Zellner | ||
George M. Kuznets (July 28, 1909 – August 3, 1986) was a Belarusian 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. He was also elected as a Fellow of the American Statistical Association, in 1960.
Born in into a Jewish family at Pinsk, Russian Empire (now in Belarus), Kuznets moved to the US with his family in the 1920s and obtained a Ph.D. in psychometrics from Stanford University. His older brother Simon Kuznets was also an economist and won the 1971 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences.