NOBEL PRIZE WINNERS
Simon Kuznets
- I was born in Pinsk in the Russian Empire (now Belarus) in 1901. I was an economist and statistician educated at Columbia University.
- My most important work led to the measurement of gross national product, or GNP—the ancestor of today's gross domestic product.
- I led pioneering studies on national income accounting that governments use to measure the economic activity of a nation during a specific time period.
- I won the Nobel Prize in Economics for the way I interpreted economic growth, which spurred greater insights into the economic and social structure.