1st Edition

Jewish Economies (Volume 1) Development and Migration in America and Beyond: The Economic Life of American Jewry

Edited By Simon Kuznets Copyright 2012
294 Pages
by Routledge

296 Pages
by Routledge

294 Pages
by Routledge

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 Yet until now his most important work on the subject was unpublished. These volumes bring to the public, for the first time, the most important work written on Jewish economic history since that of Werner Sombart a century ago. In the first... Read more
AcknowledgmentsPreface - Stephanie LoIntroduction: Simon Kuznets, Cautious Empiricist of the Eastern European Jewish Diaspora - E. Glen WeylEditor's Note1. Economic Structure and Life of the Jews - Simon Kuznets2. Economic Structure of U.S. Jewry: Recent Trends - Simon Kuznets3. Economic Growth of U.S. Jewry - Simon KuznetsAppendixIndex

Biography

Simon Kuznets