Simon Kuznets and the Empirical Tradition in Economics

西蒙·库兹涅茨和经济学的经验传统

• 批准号: 9122238
• 负责人: Robert Fogel
• 金额: $ 3.34万
• 依托单位: University of Chicago
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 1992
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1992-03-15 至 1995-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9122238&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Simon; Kuznets; Empirical; Tradition; Economics

Before his 33rd birthday, Simon Kuznets introduced the logistic and Gompertz curves to economic analysis, defined the key issues in the study of economic growth, and laid the basis for the now standard seasonal adjustments for prices, employment, and output. His next 15 years were devoted to the development of national income accounts and their application to practical problems of government. As chief statistician of the War Production Board, he demonstrated the superiority of the national income approach in establishing wartime and civilian production targets. During the balance on his career, Kuznets concentrated on developing an empirically based theory of modern economic growth, for which he was awarded the Nobel Prize. Professor Robert Fogel and Dean Enid Fogel are investigating the work of Simon S. Kuznets with the objective not only of assessing his contributions to economics, but also of showing how Kuznets' work helped to transform economics during the twentieth century from a branch of moral philosophy to a discipline that provides an important share of the individuals who make and implement economic policy in the government and in business. They are examining both Kuznets' substantive contribution to economic knowledge and his scientific methods. These methods, as much as the substantive work, are a major factor in the transformation of economics, yet they are now known only to a relatively limited circle of empirical investigators.

在他33岁生日之前，Simon Kuznets介绍了物流 并对Gompertz曲线进行经济分析，明确了关键问题 在经济增长的研究，并奠定了基础，现在 价格、就业和产出的标准季节性调整。 他接下来的15年致力于发展国家 收入帐户及其应用的实际问题 政府的 作为战争生产委员会的首席统计师， 他证明了国民收入法的优越性 制定战时和民用生产目标。 期间 在他职业生涯的平衡，库兹涅茨专注于发展一个 现代经济增长的经验基础理论，他 被授予诺贝尔奖。 罗伯特·福格尔教授和院长 伊妮德·福格尔正在调查西蒙·S.库兹涅茨与 其目的不仅是评估他对 经济学，但也表明库兹涅茨的工作如何帮助， 经济学在二十世纪从一个分支转变为 道德哲学是一门学科， 制定和实施经济政策的个人 政府和企业。 他们正在研究库兹涅茨的 他对经济知识和科学的贡献 方法. 这些方法和实质性工作一样， 经济转型的主要因素，但他们现在 只有相对有限的经验主义者才知道 investigators.