Word: leontiefs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Nobel Prize winning economist Wassily W. Leontief told the Harvard Law School Forum last night that the only hope of saving the world's underdeveloped countries is to reduce increases in defense spending...
...that Economist Wassily Leontief has assured us that we can support several billion more people on our planet, perhaps he can give us one good reason why we should...
There is little joy in the reported conclusion of the Leontief study [Oct. 25] that "world resources can support a growing population well into the 21st century." This hardly alters the situation perceived by both the doomsayers and the realists-that we are in trouble. I am not optimistic that the "extra" 50 or 75 years will be time enough...
...will be nearing exhaustion. That gloomy forecast has been increasingly disputed of late, and it takes another knock in a report soon to be published by the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs. After three years of analysis, a team of economists headed by Nobel Prizewinner Wassily Leontief has concluded that world resources can support a growing population well into the 21st century. Global abundance will also permit higher standards of living without destroying the environment...
This situation clearly does not represent the full spectrum of economic thought adequately, and the conservative capitalist side underrepresented. With a faculty like this, the department that affectionately harbored Galbraith and Leontief for years could hardly be called conservative...