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Wassily Leontief

1906 - 1999

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Wassily Wassilyevich Leontief (Russian: Васи́лий Васи́льевич Лео́нтьев; August 5, 1905 – February 5, 1999) was a Soviet-American economist known for his research on input–output analysis and how changes in one economic sector may affect other sectors. Leontief won the Nobel Memorial 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). Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Wassily Leontief is the 42nd most popular economist (down from 37th in 2019), the 529th most popular biography from Germany (down from 519th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular German Economist.

Wassily Leontief is most famous for his work in input-output analysis, which is the study of the interdependence between industries and sectors of the economy. He is also credited with the development of the theory of linear programming, which is a mathematical technique that is used to find an optimal solution to a system of linear equations.

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Among ECONOMISTS

Among economists, Wassily Leontief ranks 42 out of 414. Before him are Eugen Böhm von Bawerk, Simon Kuznets, Carl Menger, Michael Porter, Barack Obama Sr., and Léon Walras. After him are Leonid Hurwicz, John Hicks, Jacques Delors, Walt Whitman Rostow, William Petty, and Bertil Ohlin.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1906, Wassily Leontief ranks 44. Before him are Josef Kramer, Clyde Tombaugh, Marcelo Caetano, Shin'ichirō Tomonaga, Soichiro Honda, and Alexey Stakhanov. After him are Max Delbrück, Dino Buzzati, Klaus Mann, Albert Sabin, Ettore Majorana, and Empress Wanrong. Among people deceased in 1999, Wassily Leontief ranks 17. Before him are Mario Puzo, Joaquín Rodrigo, Amália Rodrigues, Yehudi Menuhin, Raisa Gorbacheva, and Arthur Leonard Schawlow. After him are Anatoliy Solovianenko, Robert Bresson, Willi Stoph, Glenn T. Seaborg, Wilt Chamberlain, and Georgios Papadopoulos.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Wassily Leontief ranks 529 out of 7,253. Before him are Friedrich Georg Wilhelm von Struve (1793), Caroline of Baden (1776), Walter Schellenberg (1910), Uwe Seeler (1936), Prince Maximilian of Baden (1867), and Gerhard Ertl (1936). After him are Bruno of Cologne (1030), Alfred von Schlieffen (1833), Joachim Frederick, Elector of Brandenburg (1546), Felix Klein (1849), Walter Scheel (1919), and Alexandra Feodorovna (1798).

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Among ECONOMISTS In Germany

Among economists born in Germany, Wassily Leontief ranks 3. Before him are Karl Marx (1818), and Klaus Schwab (1938). After him are Werner Sombart (1863), Friedrich List (1789), Albert O. Hirschman (1915), Eugen Dühring (1833), Johann Heinrich von Thünen (1783), Franz Oppenheimer (1864), Alfred Weber (1868), Lorenz von Stein (1815), and Hermann Heinrich Gossen (1810).

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