Word: leontiefs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...eight professors are: Karl F. Austen, professor of medicine; Eugene Braunwald, Hersey Professor of Physics; William D. Cochran'45, assistant clinical professor of pediatrics; Jerome Gross, professor of medicine; Hendrick S. Houthakker, professor of economics; Wassily W. Leontief, Lee Professor of Economics; C. Frederick Mosteller, professor of mathematical statistics; Bert L. Vallee, Cabot Professor of Biological Chemistry...
...department's great individualists, men such as Simon S. Kuznets, Baker Professor of Economics Emeritus, Wassily W. Leontif, Lee Professor of Economics, and John Kenneth Galbraith, Warburg Professor of Economics, on whom much of the department's reputation has long been founded. But Kuznets has retired, and Galbraith and Leontief are in their sixties...
Signers of the petition, which appeared as an advertisement in yesterday's New York Times, include Kenneth J. Arrow, professor of Economics; Konrad E. Bloch, Higgins Professor of Biochemistry; Simon F. Kuznets, George F. Baker Professor of Economics, emeritus; Wassily W. Leontief, Henry Lee Professor of Economics; Dean Rosovsky; and Krister Stendahl, dean of the Divinity School...
...suspicion unites extremists and conservatives, consumerists, Congressmen and local government officials. Contends Harvard's Nobel prizewinning Economist Wassily Leontief: "The oil shortage is not simply the result of the Arab embargo, but a gross mismanagement on the part of our oil industry, obviously abetted by our Government." Consumerist Ralph Nader conceded a month ago that there was a shortage, but labeled it "artificial." Now he says he does not think there is any shortage at all. "To this very hour," he asserts, "the industry refuses to disclose its reserves to the Government. If there was a real energy shortage...
Born in St. Petersburg in 1906, Leontief studied at the University of Leningrad before his family fled Communism. He earned a doctorate in economics at the University of Berlin, and in 1931 joined the faculty at Harvard. Among his students in 1935 was Paul Samuelson, the M.I.T. professor who won the second Nobel economics prize in 1970. Besides Leontief and Samuelson, Harvard's Simon Kuznets-also a Russian émigré-won the award in 1971, and Harvard's Kenneth J. Arrow shared it in 1972. Cracked Leontief: "Do you think there should be an antitrust investigation...