Simon Kuznets Quote

Distinctions must be kept in mind between quantity and quality of growth, between its costs and return, and between the short and the long term. Goals for more growth should specify more growth of what and for what.


Simon Kuznets in: Herbert David Croly eds. (1962) The New Republic Vol. 147. p. 29: About rethinking the system of national accounting


Distinctions must be kept in mind between quantity and quality of growth, between its costs and return, and between the short and the long term....

Distinctions must be kept in mind between quantity and quality of growth, between its costs and return, and between the short and the long term....

Distinctions must be kept in mind between quantity and quality of growth, between its costs and return, and between the short and the long term....

Distinctions must be kept in mind between quantity and quality of growth, between its costs and return, and between the short and the long term....