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Abstract

Explores the scientific work of Simon Kuznets and his impact on economics as a discipline. Discusses the rise of academic economists before World War I; the early history of the National Bureau for Economic Research; the emergence of national income accounting as a tool of economic policy; the use of national income accounting to study comparative economic growth; the scientific methods of Kuznets; further aspects of the legacy of Kuznets; and the quarter century since the death of Kuznets. Robert William Fogel is the recipient of the 1993 Nobel Prize for Economics, Charles R. Walgreen Distinguished Service Professor of American Institutions in the Booth School of Business, Director of the Center for Population Economics, and a member of the Department of Economics and the Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago. The late Enid M. Fogel was Associate Dean of Students in the Booth School of Business at the University of Chicago. Guglielmo is Assistant Professor of Economics at Bentley University. Grotte is Associate Director of the Center for Population Economics at the University of Chicago.