The Scientific Methods of Simon Kuznets

Robert William Fogel, Mark Guglielmo & Nathaniel Grotte
Published Date
Copyright 2013
ISBN 978-0-226-25661-0
Political Arithmetic
Book: Political Arithmetic: Simon Kuznets and the Empirical Tradition in Economics
Book authors: Robert William Fogel, Enid M. Fogel, Mark Guglielmo & Nathaniel Grotte
PUBLISHER: University of Chicago Press
Series: Long-Term Factors in Economic Development

This chapter discusses certain aspects of Simon Kuznets' approach to economics; his discussions of the art of measurement; and Kuznets as a theorist.

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