Wassily Leontief

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Wassily Leontief was a Nobel Prize–winning economist best known for developing input–output analysis to study the interdependence of sectors in an economy.

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Wassily Leontief canonical 4
Leontief 1

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Nobel laureate in Economic Sciences
economist
human
university teacher
academicDegree PhD in economics
awardReceived National Medal of Science
Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences
Order of the Badge of Honour
causeOfDeath pneumonia
citizenship Russian Empire
United States of America
countryOfBirth German Empire
countryOfDeath United States of America
dateOfBirth 1905-08-05
dateOfDeath 1999-02-05
educatedAt Humboldt University of Berlin
surface form: University of Berlin

Leningrad State University
surface form: University of Leningrad
employer Harvard University
New York University
familyName Wassily Leontief self-linksurface differs
surface form: Leontief
fieldOfWork econometrics
economics
input–output analysis
givenName Wassily
influenced computable general equilibrium modeling
input–output economics
influencedBy Knut Wicksell
Leon Walras
Vilfredo Pareto
knownFor Leontief paradox
Leontief production function
developing input–output analysis
languageSpoken English
German
Russian
memberOf American Economic Association
National Academy of Sciences
movement neoclassical economics
notableWork The Structure of American Economy, 1919–1929
input–output analysis
placeOfBirth Munich
placeOfDeath New York City
positionHeld professor of economics
sexOrGender male
spouse Estelle Marks Leontief
workLocation Cambridge, Massachusetts
New York City

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Leontief Prize namedAfter Wassily Leontief
Theodore Schultz sharedAwardWith Wassily Leontief
Wassily Leontief familyName Wassily Leontief self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Leontief
Wassily notableBearer Wassily Leontief
Frederic Pryor doctoralAdvisor Wassily Leontief