Modern Economic Growth: Rate, Structure, and Spread,

by Simon Kuznets

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Genres: Economics, Nonfiction, Economic Development

546 pages, Hardcover

First published August 8, 2015

About the author

Simon Smith Kuznets (/kʊzˈnɛts/, /ˈkʌznɛts/; Russian: Семён Абра́мович Кузне́ц; IPA: [sʲɪˈmʲɵn ɐˈbraməvʲɪtɕ kʊzʲˈnʲɛts]; April 30, 1901 – July 8, 1985) was an American economist, statistician, demographer, and economic historian who received the 1971 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences "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".

Kuznets made a decisive contribution to the transformation of economics into an empirical science and to the formation of quantitative economic history.