Word: leontiefs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Most Harvard professors yesterday attached the usual string of superlatives to Wassily W. Leontief, Lee Professor of Economics, who was awarded the 1973 Nobel Prize in Economics: he is "hardworking," "inventive," "brilliant," "creative...
...only one of Leontief's colleagues cited a quality that probably played no role in the Swedish Academy of Science's selection process...
...letter to the University of Paris Sorbonne, Leontief wrote that the award "represented further strengthening of personal and intellectual ties" and called it "an exceptional honor...
...Leontief's input-output analysis has been used by economic planners in socialist countries and market analysts in private enterprise countries, and has spread to more than 30 nations...
...native of Russia, Leontief came to Harvard in 1931 as an instructor of Economics, became assistant professor in 1933, associate professor in 1939, and professor in 1946. In 1947, he was named Frank W. Tausing Research Professor, a one-year appointment...