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Leontief

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Le·on·tief  (l-ôntyf, -n-), Wassily 1906-1999.
Russian-born American economist. He won a 1973 Nobel Prize for devising the input-output technique of economic analysis.
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Noun1.Leontief - United States economist (born in Russia) who devised an input-output method of economic analysis (1906-1999)


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Wassily Leontief, the foremost proponent of input-output analyses of economic structure, might not agree with this use of the term, but for our purposes it will do.
And her father, Jerry, was blacklisted in the 1950s from any defense-related industries because someone reported to the McCarthy crowd that he owned a copy of Political Economy, by Wassily Leontief.
When economic historians write this century's story, they no doubt will mention the insights of Lord Keynes, the free-market musings of Milton Friedman, the econometric models of Wassily Leontief, and the portfolio theories of Harry Markowitz.
 
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