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...establishing a phone line (5-SAVE) to get input and suggestions on energy conservation from the community...
...consultant will work for the GSA, but we have insured the Task Force that they will have ample input," Griffin said...
...said, however, that the opportunity for input is being offered by the GSA as a courtesy and is not required by law in the early stages of the impact statement...
Though such direct involvement in public issues is unusual for an academic economist, it flows quite naturally from Leontief's most important achievement: the development of "input-output" analysis. Leontiefs big contribution was devising the formulas through which economists can determine with great precision how changes in one sector of the economy (inputs) will affect the performance of other sectors (outputs). Building on his pioneering work, Government economists now compile a huge statistical grid showing how much each economic sector buys and sells from every other major sector. Using the chart, they can, for example, calculate how much...
Leontief's attitude toward his field, like his input-output model, is free of dogmatic constraints. The Nobel Prize winner has praise for the profit motive in the American economy and the collective controls in the Chinese system...