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Aug 16, 2019 · Input-output economics. by. Leontief, Wassily W., 1906-. Publication date. 1986. Topics. Input-output analysis, Input-output tables -- United States. Publisher. New York : Oxford University Press.
Wassily W. Leontief Provides the only comprehensive introduction which Leontief has written to his model of Input-Output Economics. The book begins with non-technical articles on the theory of Input-Output Economics and progresses to specific applications of the theory. At least one third of the material in this edition is new.
WASSILY LEONTIEF: IN APPRECIATION William J. Baumol* and Thijs ten Raa** We review the work of Wassily Leontief, who recently passed away. His work encompasses and redirects the entire field of economics, including pure theory. *Baumol is professor of economics at New York University and professor emeritus at Princeton University.
Wassily Leontief was an economist who was one of the rst people to do com-putational analysis of economics. Moreover his work involved one of the rst uses of a computer to produce this analysis, done in 1949 at Harvard. For his work he won a Nobel Prize in 1973.
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professor wassily leontief, the founder of input-output ( i- o) accounts, died last month. During his illustrious career, he contributed to many areas of eco-nomic research, including international trade theory, business cycle theory, and capital theory.
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Leontief’s dedicated preference for what can be observed rather than what can be imagined, coupled with an insistence on practical applications, led him to his greatest achievement—the invention and elaboration of input-output analysis (IOA).
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This paper is about Wassily Leontief’s path towards the discovery of input-output economics, which by wide consensus happened through two articles in Review of Economic Statistics in 1936 and 1937.
