Jewish Economies (Volume 1): Development and Migration in America and Beyond: The Economic Life of American Jewry

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 Yet until now his most important work on the subject was unpublished.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. H...