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Simon Kuznets and Russia: An Uneasy Relationship

In: Russian and Western Economic Thought

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  • Moshe Syrquin

    (University of Miami)

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The chapter traces the uneasy relation of Simon Kuznets and Russia. Kuznets was born and educated in Russia and the Soviet Ukraine and completed his economic education in the US under Wesley Mitchell. His keen interest and mildly sympathetic view of the early Soviet regime changed drastically by 1930, apparently as a result of the Stalinist purges. He fell silent on all things Russian for three decades. The debates on Soviet industrialization in the early 1920s influenced his major study on the economic growth of nations. By 1960, he reengaged with Soviet economics with a devastating appraisal of its performance. Some of his work was influenced by his heritage, particularly his Jewish roots.

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  • Moshe Syrquin, 2022. "Simon Kuznets and Russia: An Uneasy Relationship," Springer Studies in the History of Economic Thought, in: Vladimir Avtonomov & Harald Hagemann (ed.), Russian and Western Economic Thought, pages 307-342, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:spshcp:978-3-030-99052-7_15
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-99052-7_15
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