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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
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Does inequality in the distribution of income increase or decrease in the course of a country's economic growth?
~ Simon Kuznets
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Decrease
Distribution
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Economic Growth
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Economists must always be prepared for surprises: they find many in trying to find order in the universe of their study.
~ Simon Kuznets
Always
Be Prepared
Economists
Find
Many
Must
Order
Prepared
Study
Surprises
Trying
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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
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Born
Came
Father
I Was Born
Jewish
Join
Left
Parents
Russia
States
United
United States
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Who
World
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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
Associated
Bureau
Columbia
Columbia University
Debt
Economic
First
Graduate
Graduate School
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Intellectual
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Met
Mitchell
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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
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Economic
Economic Growth
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Growth
Innovations
Mass
Modern
Much
Progress
Science
Substance
Technological
Technology
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Memorable occasions should be brief, and so should be the expressions of appreciation.
~ Simon Kuznets
Appreciation
Brief
Expressions
Memorable
Occasions
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Success in war and preservation of a country's social framework as a purpose at least equal in importance to welfare of individuals.
~ Simon Kuznets
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Equal
Framework
Importance
Individuals
Least
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Purpose
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Success
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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
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Area
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Communication
Continuous
Countries
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Economic
Economic Growth
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Expansion
Growth
Less
Major
Meant
Modern
Others
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Reaching
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The welfare of a nation can scarcely be inferred from a measurement of national income as defined by the GDP.
~ Simon Kuznets
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GDP
Income
Measurement
Nation
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When, over fifty years ago, I first became interested in economics - as a discipline that provided the key to social structure and social problems - it never crossed my mind that one day I might be the honored recipient of a Nobel Memorial Prize.
~ Simon Kuznets
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Crossed
Day
Discipline
Economics
Fifty
First
Honored
Interested
Key
Memorial
Might
Mind
Never
Nobel
One Day
Over
Prize
Problems
Provided
Recipient
Social
Social Problems
Structure
Years
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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
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Growth
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Hours
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Labor
Means
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Population
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With the variety of fields within economics, broadly conceived and the increasing specialization of scholarly world, the award of a Nobel Memorial Prize honors not only the individual scholar but, implicitly, also a special field or a distinctive method.
~ Simon Kuznets
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Award
Conceived
Distinctive
Economics
Field
Fields
Honors
Implicitly
Increasing
Individual
Memorial
Method
Nobel
Only
Prize
Scholar
Scholarly
Special
Specialization
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Simon Kuznets
Profession
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BirthDate
30 April, 1901
DeathDate
08 July, 1985
Country
United States
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