Kuznets

His inverted U relationship between income growth and equality – eventually became known as the Kuznets Curve, and despite the fact that he warned his results were “speculative” this relationship has come to represent the traditional growth path of nations.

Inequity and growth 2007

Superficially, urban PM10 concentrations seem to follow the so-called Kuznets environmental curve-that is, they first rise during development, reach a peak, then decline (Grossman and Kruger, 1994).

Chapter 8 2000

This relationship has the shape of an inverted U (the so-called Kuznets curve): In low-income countries, economic development leads to a rise in income inequality (e.g. as some households shift from agriculture to higher-earning jobs in industry).

Nouriel Roubini's Global EconoMonitor Models 2010

The line more often rose, flattened out and then reversed so that it sloped downward, forming the shape of a dome or an inverted U-- what's called a Kuznets curve.

The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com 2009

The line more often rose, flattened out and then reversed so that it sloped downward, forming the shape of a dome or an inverted U-- what's called a Kuznets curve.

The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com 2009

It's called a Kuznets curve (in honor of the economist Simon Kuznets, who detected this pattern in trends of income inequality):

Reason Magazine - Hit & Run 2009

But we will have to muddle through with the legacy of Kuznets and the generations of economists who expanded and improved on his remarkable achievement.

Misleading Indicator 2009

But if Kuznets had a hard time figuring out how to measure all the transactions in our marketplace, how much harder will it be for his multilateral successors to put a number on the things we often call priceless?

Misleading Indicator 2009

Even though his staff had to tabulate the results without the aid of computers, Kuznets and his team produced the first national accounts more rapidly than his successors will create the newer, better set of statistics they aspire to.

Misleading Indicator 2009

For all the burdens under which Kuznets labored, he had one advantage: the absence of an existing economic establishment.

Misleading Indicator 2009