Word: leontieff
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Leontieff agreed with Harris and Slichter that any reduction in taxes would be an incitement to inflation, but, like his colleagues, felt that an increase in federal taxation would serve no immediate good...
...expects the economy to expand as fast as it did in 1955," commented Professor Wassily Leontieff, "but there is no reason why it should not stay at an even keel. The balanced budget without a reduction in taxes is a good sign...
...Russian Research Center was set up on an original Carnegie Corporation grant in 1948. The Corporation felt the U. S. needed more knowledge of Russia, and it picked Harvard because of the strong social relations department, Russian scholars such as professors Michael Karpovich and Wassily Leontieff, and anthropology leaders such as Clyde Kluckhohn, who had already applied anthropology to the study of Japan in the second world...
...Leontieff's reaction was typical. He stated that "in an inflationary period anything which will tend to reduce prices to consumers will be healthy...
Wassily W. Leontieff, professor of economics, Morris A. Adelman, lecturer on law, and two Business School specialists, Malcolm P. McNair and Milton P. Brown, agreed that the abolition of this clause will help lower the prices of consumer goods distributed across state boundaries...