ECONOMIST

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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Wassily Leontief has received more than 477,619 page views. His biography is available in 61 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 59 in 2019). Wassily Leontief is the 37th most popular economist, the 519th most popular biography from Germany (down from 473rd 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 37 out of 414. Before him are Barack Obama Sr., William Petty, Elinor Ostrom, Ragnar Frisch, Jan Tinbergen, and Léon Walras. After him are Karl Polanyi, Frédéric Bastiat, Robert Solow, Maurice Allais, Ronald Coase, and Friedrich List.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1906, Wassily Leontief ranks 38. Before him are Giuseppe Farina, Léopold Sédar Senghor, Léon Degrelle, Hans Asperger, Josef Kramer, and Klaus Mann. After him are Dino Buzzati, Shin'ichirō Tomonaga, Albert Sabin, Vladimir Prelog, Franz Joseph II, Prince of Liechtenstein, and Marcel Carné. Among people deceased in 1999, Wassily Leontief ranks 14. Before him are Gertrude B. Elion, Joaquín Rodrigo, Amália Rodrigues, Wilt Chamberlain, Yehudi Menuhin, and Anatoliy Solovianenko. After him are Georgios Papadopoulos, Willi Stoph, Robert Bresson, Raisa Gorbacheva, Arthur Leonard Schawlow, and Jerzy Grotowski.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Wassily Leontief ranks 519 out of 7,253. Before him are Josef Kramer (1906), Patrick Süskind (1949), Niklas Luhmann (1927), Hans Geiger (1882), Klaus Mann (1906), and Erhard Milch (1892). After him are Hans Spemann (1869), Johann Rudolf Glauber (1604), Albert, Duke of Prussia (1490), F. W. Murnau (1888), Peter Simon Pallas (1741), and Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (1742).

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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 Friedrich List (1789), Werner Sombart (1863), Johann Heinrich von Thünen (1783), Eugen Dühring (1833), Franz Oppenheimer (1864), Alfred Weber (1868), Gottfried Feder (1883), Hermann Heinrich Gossen (1810), and Lorenz von Stein (1815).

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