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Wassily Leontief
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| Wassily Leontief | |
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| Born | Wassily Wassilyevich Leontief August 5, 1905[1] Munich, German Empire |
| Died | February 5, 1999 (aged 93) New York City,[2] United States |
| Citizenship | Russian Empire, Soviet Union, United States |
| Fields | Economics |
| Institutions | University of Kiel New York University Harvard University |
| Alma mater | Frederick William University, (PhD) University of Leningrad, (MA) |
| Doctoral advisor | Ladislaus Bortkiewicz Werner Sombart |
| Doctoral students | Paul Samuelson Thomas Schelling Robert Solow Kenneth E. Iverson Vernon L. Smith Richard E. Quandt Hyman Minsky Khodadad Farmanfarmaian[3] Dale W. Jorgenson[4] Michael C. Lovell Karen R. Polenske F.M. Scherer[1] |
| Known for | Input-output analysis |
| Influences | Léon Walras |
| Influenced | George B. Dantzig |
| Notable awards | Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences (1973) |
Leontief won the Nobel Committee's Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences in 1973, and four of his doctoral students have also been awarded the prize (Paul Samuelson 1970, Robert Solow 1987, Vernon L. Smith 2002, Thomas Schelling 2005).
References
- ↑ "The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 1973". https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/economic-sciences/1973/leontief/biographical/.
- ↑ Wassily Leontief Birth Certificate. U.S. Library of Congress
- ↑ Harvard IOHP | Khodadad Farmanfarmaian Transcripts. Fas.harvard.edu. Retrieved on 2017-09-06.
- ↑ Jorgenson, Dale W. (1998) Growth, Vol. 1: Econometric General Equilibrium Modeling. Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press. ISBN 026226322X
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- ↑ Dalyell, Tam (11 February 1999). "Obituary: Wassily Leontief". https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/obituary-wassily-leontief-1070037.html. Retrieved 18 May 2019.
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