Wassily Wassilyevich Leontief

Wassily Wassilyevich Leontief, Nobel Laureate

Born: 1906-08-05 in St. Petersburg, Russia

Gender: male

Field: Soviet-American economist

Biography

Wassily Wassilyevich Leontief, was a Soviet-American economist known for his research on input–output analysis and how changes in one economic sector may affect other sectors.

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Nobel Prize Details

The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 1973

Awarded on: 1973-10-18

"for the development of the input-output method and for its application to important economic problems"

Affiliations:

  • Harvard University – Cambridge, MA, USA
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