Wassily Leontief (1906-1999)

Awarded the Prize “for the development of the input-output method for its application to important economic problems.”

American economist. Leontief was born on August 5, 1906 in St. Petersburg, Russia. He received the degree of Learned Economist in 1925. He taught at the University of Kiel in Germany in 1927, moved to the National Bureau of Economic Research in New York in 1931 to the Department of Economics at Harvard University in 1932, becoming Professor of Economics in 1946. In 1965 he became Chairman of the Harvard Society of Fellows. He was elected president of American Economic Association in 1970. Leontief died on February 5, 1999 in New York.
Major Works:
Structure of the American Economy, 1919-1929 (1941); Studies in the Structure of the American Economy (1953); Input-Output Economics Collected Essays (1966); The Future of the World Economy (1977); The Struct