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...Leontief left his native Soviet Union in 1925 to continue his studies at the University of Berlin, because he felt intellectual and personal freedoms were being restricted. Four years later, he emigrated to the United States where he found a job with the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), based in Cambridge...
...work attracted the attention of the university, which later hired him as a professor in the Department of Economics. While at Harvard, Leontief developed his theories on production, especially in third-world nations...
...Leontief used his ideas to assist the U.S. government in World War II as a consultant to the Department of Labor. He also received funding from the Ford Foundation, which he used to establish the Harvard Research Project on the Structure of the American Economy...
...Harvard, where he would eventually be honored with the Lee chair in economics, Leontief completed his ground breaking research on these modes of production, and attracted the attention of the Nobel Committee...
...ideas of input-output greatly helped administrators and researchers understand economics, and increase levels of efficiency and profitability," said Robert Dorfman, Wells Professor of Political Economy and a close friend of Leontief...