Leontief

[lee-on-tee-ef, -uhf]

noun

1. Wassily 1906–1999, U.S. economist, born in Russia: Nobel Prize 1973.

Example Sentences

Leontief wanted economists to spend more time getting to know their data, and less time in mathematical modelling.

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Most economists still reject Professor Leontief’s analogy, but the conventional economic consensus is starting to fray.

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Developed by Nobel Prize–winning economist Wassily Leontief, the data estimate the environmental emissions and energy consumed while making individual products.

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Nina Oding, an economist at the city's Leontief Centre, criticised "clumsy efforts by the state somehow to regulate price formation".

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In 2008, he won the Leontief Prize for “advancing the frontiers of economic thought.”

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