Wassily Leontief

Wassily Wassilyevich Leontief (; August 5, 1905 – February 5, 1999), was a Russian-American economist. He is known for his research on input-output analysis.

Leontief won the Nobel Committee's Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences in 1973, and four of his doctoral students have also been awarded the prize (Paul Samuelson 1970, Robert Solow 1987, Vernon L. Smith 2002, Thomas Schelling 2005).

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