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...group, which included Wassily W. Leontief, Henry Lee Professor of Economics, released its report in the hope that it might influence the success of the 17-nation disarmament conference which opens in Geneva tomorrow. Their position refutes Soviet Premier Khrushchev's contention that the West refuses to disarm because of possible dangers to its economic stability...
About 250 professional economists will meet in Geneva early next fall for an International Conference on Input-Output Techniques sponsored by the United Nations Secretariat and the University Economic Research Project. Chairman of the meeting will be Wassily W. Leontief, Henry Lee Professor of Economics, who developed the original technique in the thirties...
Since its birth in 1932, input-output analysis has been adopted by over 30 countries to meet various economic challenges. Leontief explained that regardless of a nation's political philosophy or stage of development, input-output analysis can aid in predicting the outcome of economic changes and in understanding the interrelations of industrial sectors...
...Conference, financed by the Rockefeller Foundation and the National Science Foundation, will evaluate research techniques now in use, and attempt to establish improved international standards. Leontief believes the meeting will help eliminate wasteful duplication of input-output work, and he hopes the conference will lay the ground for further international cooperation in economics at the professional rather than the state level...
...American industries and local groups have developed several input-output tables. The Pennsylvania Railroad has based one on industries and commercial establishments that have grown up alongside its tracks. A massive report on the results of its research was published by the railroad. "This is not an academic project," Leontief remarked, "but it is practical." In St. Louis a table based on the metropolitan area has been constructed. A banking house in Berkeley, Calif., has also completed a local chart...