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on the subject was unpublished.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 volume, Kuznets uses extensive, original data to
trace trends in the economic life of American Jews. He measures
quantitatively for the first time the legendary economic success of
American Jews and discusses the foundations of these achievements.
Tracing their distinctive concentration in the professions, he
exposes the causes of the extreme inequalities in American Jewish
economic life. The immigrant origin of nearly all American Jews
offers a unique case study in the process of assimilation that made
American Jewry the ultimate American success story. This offers an
ideal prelude to the second forthcoming volume, Comparative
Perspectives on Jewish Migration.
The volume's editors also provide a unique perspective on
Kuznets' work. In the introduction, Weyl shows that many of
Kuznets' most influential ideas, were inspired by his study of the
economic history of the Jews. Through careful analysis of shared
themes, and dozens of hours of detailed interviews, Lo and Weyl
reveal a new dimension of Kuznets' thought to historical
inquiry.
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