Word: leontiefs
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...elegantly simple technique won this year's Nobel Prize in Economics for Wassily W. Leontief, Lee Professor of Economics and the fourth American cited for the award in the past four years...
...Leontief's input-output analysis, praised by the Swedish Academy of Science for its broad range of applications, is a predictable tool that maps out the interdependence of industrial output in different types of economy...
...Since Leontief developed his model at Harvard in the early 1930s, input-output analysis has become the backbone of planning chiefly in socialist and developing nations...
Members of the Economics Department, having watched two of their colleagues rise to Nobel fame in the past two years, agreed that Leontief was a deserving but hardly surprising choice...
While most of Leontief's colleagues praised the 67-year-old economist for his economic inventiveness, one Harvard economist was more impressed with Leontief's "wonderful success at resisting the conservative tendencies of our trade...