Some Notes on the Scientific Methods of Simon Kuznets

Robert Fogel

No 2461, NBER Working Papers from National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc

Abstract: This paper discusses the scientific methods that guided the economic research of Simon Kuznets, with particular stress on his approach to measurement and theory. The paper closes with the transcription of a brief autobiographical talk by Kuznets at a dinner in honor of his eightieth birthday.

Date: 1987-12
Note: DAE
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Published as Economic Development, the Family, and Income Distribution: Selected Essays, S. Kuznets. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989.

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