Le·on·tief

(lē-ôn′tyĕf, -ŏn′-), Wassily 1905-1999.

German-born American economist. He won a 1973 Nobel Prize for devising the input-output technique of economic analysis.

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Le•on•ti•ef

(liˈɒn tiˌɛf, -əf)

n.

Wassily, 1906–99, U.S. economist, born in Russia: Nobel prize 1973.

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A special case of production function implying zero substitutability between inputs is the Leontief technology [18, p.

Supply Chain Modeled as a Metabolic Pathway

Wasily Leontief, the 1973 Noble prize winner in economics, wrote an article in 1982 expressing fear of high unemployment due to technological advances.

Will robots steal our jobs?

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John Maynard Keynes offered one; Wassily Leontief provided another.

Cut out the melodrama on automation gains

Using Wassily Leontief's (1977) World Input-Output Model, the income generated by each of hundreds of global value chains can be broken down by industry, country, and capital and labour inputs.

World KLEMS: Productivity and Economic Growth in the World Economy: An Introduction

Friedman 1948; Leontief 1971; Worswick 1972; Lucas 1976; Summers 1991; Keuzenkamp 1995; Solow 2010).

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Decades ago, renowned economists John Maynard Keynes and Wassily Leontief foretold a time when artificial intelligence would produce "technological unemployment." In their view, labor would become less important and workers would be replaced by machines.

The impact of technology on labor markets

John Maynard Keynes warned in 1929 of coming "technological unemployment" and Wassily Leontief predicted several decades later that "labor will become less and less important." In recent years, a range of studies has estimated that nearly half of all U.S.

Robots and jobs in the U.S. labor market