Jewish Economies (Volume 2)

Name: Jewish Economies (Volume 2)
Brand: Taylor & Francis

Taylor & Francis

Jewish Economies (Volume 2)Development and Migration in America and Beyond: Comparative Perspectives on Jewish Migration\nAuthor(s): S. Troen, Simon Kuznets\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781138511224, 978-1138511224\nSynopsis\nNobel 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 Yet, until now, his most important work on the subject was unpublished.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 migration since that of Werner Sombart a century ago.\n\nThis volume of Kuznets' work includes three main essays. The first, titled \""Immigration and the Foreign Born,\"" was Kuznets' first work on immigration and discusses the impact of the general foreign born on the [url] Kuznets and his co-author]