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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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Wassily Leontief has received more than 449,905 page views. His biography is available in 59 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 57 in 2019). Wassily Leontief is the 38th most popular economist (down from 30th in 2019), the 473rd most popular biography from Germany (down from 417th 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 38 out of 315. Before him are Ronald Coase, Gunnar Myrdal, Léon Walras, Karl Polanyi, Benjamin Graham, and Elinor Ostrom. After him are Ragnar Frisch, Thorstein Veblen, Friedrich List, Gary Becker, Jacques Attali, and Jan Tinbergen.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1906, Wassily Leontief ranks 37. Before him are Hassan al-Banna, Hans Asperger, Alexey Stakhanov, Léopold Sédar Senghor, Josef Kramer, and John Huston. After him are James E. Webb, Hans Bethe, Dino Buzzati, Marcelo Caetano, Philip Johnson, and Robert E. Howard. Among people deceased in 1999, Wassily Leontief ranks 15. Before him are Gertrude B. Elion, Amália Rodrigues, Yehudi Menuhin, Raisa Gorbacheva, Wilt Chamberlain, and Robert Bresson. After him are Georgios Papadopoulos, Petr Shelokhonov, Willi Stoph, Desmond Llewelyn, Jerzy Grotowski, and Joe DiMaggio.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Wassily Leontief ranks 473 out of 6,142. Before him are Rudolf Dassler (1898), Henri Nestlé (1814), Hedwig of Silesia (1174), Wilhelm Mohnke (1911), Elisabeth of Bavaria, Queen of Belgium (1876), and Ernst Lubitsch (1892). After him are Ulrich von Hutten (1488), Arno Allan Penzias (1933), Adolf Galland (1912), Johann Bayer (1572), Richard von Weizsäcker (1920), and Adolf Windaus (1876).

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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), Gottfried Feder (1883), Eugen Dühring (1833), Hermann Heinrich Gossen (1810), Alfred Weber (1868), Lorenz von Stein (1815), and Oskar Morgenstern (1902).

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