Simon Kuznets

question 237

Multiple Choice

Simon Kuznets:

• A) devised the gross national product as a way of measuring a nation's economic output.
• B) set up the National Bureau of Economic Research.
• C) was Secretary of Treasury during World War II.
• D) invented the hair net.

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