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...promising field is economics. Professor Wassily W. Leontief of Harvard explained that when economists try to figure out how the innumerable industries of a nation or continent affect one another, they run into a bramble-patch of interlaced figures. He hoped that the great calculators, by breaking this numerical barrier, might give nations a hint on how to keep their economies balanced...
...promising field is economics. Professor Wassily W. Leontief of Harvard explained that when economists try to figure out how the innumerable industries of a nation or continent affect one another, they run into a bramble-patch of interlaced figures. He hoped that the great calculators, by breaking this numerical barrier, might give nations a hint on how to keep their economies balanced...
...political scientist found himself faced by a four-man board of interrogators, drawn from the Economics and Government departments, after his 40-minute unprepared speech. Tempers sometimes flared as Professors William Y. Elliott, Wassily W. Leontief, Samuel Beer, and Seymour E. Harris alternately attacked and supported his views...
While Alvin H. Hansen, Lucius N. Littauer Professor of Political Economy, will not give any undergraduate courses next year, the Department still presents an all-star cast. The galaxy of Professors Black, Haberler, Harris, Leontief, Schumpeter, Williams, and Associate Professor Dunlop is one that probably can't be beaten anywhere. Moreover there are many good men in the Department's lower echelons...
...school of American studies in Europe, with courses on history, government, economies, sociology, literature, and art. An improved library--the best on American subjects in Central Europe--and another excellent faculty helped to make the record of the second year just as impressive. Harvard was again represented by Professor Leontief, and Talcott Parsons, professor of sociology, made his first trip to the Seminar. In gener- al, however, the teaching staff was more broadly representative of the United States than in the first year. Professor Henry Nash Smith of the University of Minnesota was chosen as Executive Director and lectured...