Product Description: Nobel Laureate Simon Kuznets, famous as the founder of modern empirical economics, pioneered the quantitative study of the economic history of the Jews. Yet, until now, his most important work on the subject was unpublished. This second collection of previously unavailable material issued by Transaction brings to the public, for the first time, the most important economic work written on Jewish migration since that of Werner Sombart a century ago...read more

Product Description: This collection of essays by 1971 Nobel Prize winner Simon Kuznets, published posthumously, represents the primary concerns of his research at a late phase of his career, as well as themes from his earlier work. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Nine essays range from historical overviews to detailed analyses of fertility, population, and the distribution of income, and deal with economic change in developed and underdeveloped countries

Product Description: An examination of long-term trends in capital formation and financing in the U.S., this study is organized primarily around the principal capital-using sectors of the economy: agriculture, mining and manufacturing, public utilities, non-farm residential real estate, and government...read more

Product Description: When Simon Kuznets was awarded the Nobel Prize in Economics in 1971, his citation read, in part, "...his empirically based scholarly work has led to a new and more profound insight into the economic and social structure and the process of change and development...read more