Word: leontiefs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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NOBEL LAUREATE Wassily W. Leontief's announcement last week that he would leave Harvard's Economics Department to take a post at New York University is the latest and possibly the saddest in a series of indications that the department has serious problems...
...Leontief said that NYU had "naturally" offered him an increased salary, but he said this was not an important factor in his decision to leave Harvard...
...Leontief who has taught in Harvard's Economics Department for 44 years, stressed last night that his remarks were limited "very strictly to the department and not the University in general...
James S. Duesenberry, chairman of the Economics Department, said last night from Washington that he is "sorry to see Leontief go," but added that because of retirement rules, Leontief had only a few more years of tenure in the Economic Department...
...declined to comment on the reasons Leontief gave for his resignation...