Word: leontiefs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sources in the department said last week that the department is considering graduate program reforms to stop future grad school applicants from "voting with their feet," just as Leontief did in January...
Wassily W. Leontief, Lee Professor of Economics, may have announced his resignation in January, but the repercussions of his move--particularly his citing of the "strong sense of alienation" among graduate students at the time--surfaced again last week and emphasized that problems in the Economics Department will probably not disappear any time soon...
...Griliches, professor of Economics and chairman of the department's graduate admissions committee, last week blamed the bad national publicity the department endured following Leontief's resignation for the loss of several highly-rated graduate school applicants in Economics to MIT, Harvard's main competitor...
Griliches is disturbed by the drift among future economics stars away from Harvard and attributes it mainly to the department's reputation for "impersonality and coldness," which was highlighted by an article in The New York Times after Leontief's announcement and by word-passing and gossip in other universities' economics departments...
...total of 57 scholars, including Nobel laureates Kenneth J. Arrow, Conant University Professor; Wassily W. Leontief, Lee Professor of Economics; Simon S. Kuznets, retired Baker Professor of Economics; and George Wald, Higgins Professor of Biology, addressed their message to the Organization of American States' (OAS) Human Rights Commission...