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However, Wassily W. Leontief, professor of Economics, dissented from his colleagues, guessing that prices might stay down in view of the winter bumper crops...
Garrett Birkhoff '32, professor of Mathematics; Howard W. Emmons, associate professor of Engineering Science; Wassily W. Leontief, professor of Economics; Donald H. Menzel, professor of Astrophysics; Julian S. Schwinger, professor of Physics; Julian S. Schwinger, professor of Physics; Samuel A. Stouffer, professor of Sociology and Director of the Laboratory of Social Relations...
...their eagerness to put the calculator to work, the committee should not let the preparedness of the physicists outweigh the need of the psychologist. The latter must be given a little grace to reorient his thinking. As Professor Leontief, also a member, of the committee, points out, his fellow economists have intentionally pursued their investigations in broad, vague terms, because of the tediousness and expense of dealing mathematically with the voluminous statistics confronting them. The genius of the calculator is that it can deal with many variables operating simultaneously. In the fluid and changing battleground of economics, sociology, and social...
Those fields--and the men in charge of them--present a rich choice to the students. F. O. Matthiessen, professor of History and Literature, and critic Alfred Kazin are giving courses on American literature; Wassily Leontief, professor of Economics, and Walt W. Rostow of Oxford are lecturing on economics and economic politics; Miss Elspeth Davies of Sarah Lawrence, Neal A. McDonald of the New Jersey College for Women, and Benjamin F. Wright, professor of Government, are in charge of the government field; James Johnson Sweeney, former director of the New York Museum of Modern Art, is lecturing on various phases...
Wassily W. Leontief, professor of Economics, F. O. Matthiessen, professor of History and Literature, and Benjamin F. Wright, professor of Government, head the Harvard Faculty delegation, which includes several graduate students...