Leontief
Americannoun
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Even when they did empirical analysis, Leontief said economists seldom took any interest in the meaning or value of their data.
From The Guardian • Jul. 11, 2017
Mindful of that difference, at his own presidential address to the American Economic Association nearly a half-century ago, another Nobel laureate, Wassily Leontief, struck a modest tone.
From The Guardian • Jul. 11, 2017
—Wassily W. Leontief and Marvin Hoffenberg” Leontief was awarded the economics prize from the Nobel Foundation in 1973.
From Scientific American • Mar. 25, 2011
Another economist, Harvard's Wassily Leontief, gave the world only 20 years for a kind of last fling before its primary sources of energy are exhausted.
From Time Magazine Archive
After three years of analysis, a team of economists headed by Nobel Prizewinner Wassily Leontief has concluded that world resources can support a growing population well into the 21st century.
From Time Magazine Archive
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