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Wassily W. Leontief, Henry Lee Professor of Economics, was named to the first Frank W. Taussig '79 Research Professorship in Economics, it was announced yesterday...
...Wassily Leontief, professor of Economics, will be chairman of the committee, which includes Howard Aiken, Director of the Computation Laboratory and professor of Applied Mathematics, and E. Bright Wilson, professor of Chemistry...
...Leontief has been working in this field for the past eight years with Rockefeller funds. The Foundation gave him $100,000 in 1948 and $140,000 more in 1952, each grant being for four years. The results of the first four years of his work were published in 1953 under the title, "The Structure of American Economy...
...Leontief has been interested in this subject ever since he came to this country in 1931. In 1948, with Foundation funds, he built up a small staff to work with him. The staff, which varies in number, is composed of professors, instructors, and even a few students. Leontief, reached in Washington last night, said that he was especially interested in getting students to work on the project and integrating them gradually into the staff...
Under the new six-year grant, Leontief will have a freer hand in employing the money than he previously had under the four year subsidies. His studies will be concerned with the structure and development of the United States economy. His group will study the interrelationship of technicological change, national resources, change in the structure of the consumers amount, and the increase in national income...