KeenBrain
KeenBrain
KeenBrain

Simon Kuznets Quotes


Share this page on

Quotes by Simon Kuznets

Showing 1-10 of 14 Quotes by Simon Kuznets

Memorable occasions should be brief, and so should be the expressions of appreciation.

~Simon Kuznets

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


The welfare of a nation can scarcely be inferred from a measurement of national income as defined by the GDP.

~Simon Kuznets

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


Economists must always be prepared for surprises: they find many in trying to find order in the universe of their study.

~Simon Kuznets

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


Does inequality in the distribution of income increase or decrease in the course of a country's economic growth?

~Simon Kuznets

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


It was at the graduate school at Columbia University that I first met Wesley C. Mitchell, with whom I was associated for many years at the National Bureau of Economic Research and to whom I owe a great intellectual debt.

~Simon Kuznets

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


A country's economic growth may be defined as a long-term rise in capacity to supply increasingly diverse economic goods to its population, this growing capacity based on advancing technology and the institutional and ideological adjustments that it demands.

~Simon Kuznets

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


I was born in Russia in 1901 of Jewish parents and came to the United States in 1922 to join my father, who left Russia for the United States before World War I.

~Simon Kuznets

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


With the rather stable ratio of labor force to total population, a high rate of increase in per capita product means a high rate of increase in product per worker; and, with average hours of work declining, it means still higher growth rates in product per man-hour.

~Simon Kuznets

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


The dynamic drives of modern economic growth, in the countries that entered the process ahead of others, meant a reaching out geographically; and the sequential spread of the process, facilitated by major changes in transport and communication, meant a continuous expansion to the less developed areas.

~Simon Kuznets

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


Mass application of technological innovations, which constitutes much of the distinctive substance of modern economic growth, is closely connected with the further progress of science, in its turn the basis for additional advance in technology.

~Simon Kuznets

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Economist

Born: April 30th, 1901

Died: July 8th, 1985

Links

Find Simon Kuznets on Amazon

Related Authors

Milton Friedman
John Kenneth Galbraith
Alan Greenspan
Robert Reich
Murray Rothbard
Paul Samuelson
Thomas Sowell
Thorstein Veblen

Popular Authors

Alexander Graham Bell Thomas Hobbes Andrew Jackson Eartha Kitt Niccolo Machiavelli Ayn Rand Taylor Swift Twiggy

Change your beliefs...change your life.

Get a related quote or insight every day.

(it's 100% free)

Follow Us On

Today's Birthdays

1694 - Voltaire

1768 - Friedrich Schleiermacher

1787 - Bryan Procter

1863 - Arthur Quiller-Couch

1870 - Alexander Berkman

1886 - Harold Nicolson

1889 - Hugh Kingsmill

1898 - Rene Magritte

1904 - Coleman Hawkins

1907 - Jim Bishop

Birthdays on November 21st
All Birthdays

Popular Topics

Change Dating Government Leadership Marriage Men Money Work