1st Edition

Jewish Economies (Volume 2) Development and Migration in America and Beyond: Comparative Perspectives on Jewish Migration

Edited By S. Troen, Simon Kuznets Copyright 2011
295 Pages
by Routledge

296 Pages
by Routledge

296 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 Yet, until now, his most important work on the subject was unpublished. This second collection of previously unavailable material issued by Transaction brings to the public, for the first time, the most important economic work written on Jewish... Read more
Acknowledgments Preface - Stephanie Lo Introduction: Simon Kuznets, Cautious Empiricist of the Eastern European Jewish Diaspora - E. Glen Weyl 1. Immigration and the Foreign Born - Simon Kuznets (with Ernest Rubin) 2. Israel's Economic Development - Simon Kuznets 3. Immigration of Russian Jews to the United States: Background and Structure - Simon Kuznets Index

Biography

Simon Kuznets