The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 1971
The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 1971 was awarded to Simon Kuznets "for his empirically founded interpretation of economic growth which has led to new and deepened insight into the economic and social structure and process of development"
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