Wassily W. Leontief (1905–1999)

Charles McCann

Chapter 15 in The Palgrave Companion to Harvard Economics, 2024, pp 379-403 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract Wassily Leontief is without doubt one of the most famous economists of the twentieth century. Nobel Laureate, regarded as the inventor of the input–output model, his contributions to economics and related disciplines are many and varied, and yet he is generally renowned for that single achievement. This chapter will attempt to review briefly Leontief’s life and work so as to provide a fuller picture of his accomplishments.

Keywords: Wassily Leontief; Input–output; Harvard University; Nobel Prize; NBER; Kiel Institute (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-52053-2_15

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