Leontief, Wassily, 1906-1999

Overview: Wassily Wassilyevich Leontief (1905-1999) was an American economist of Russian descent. He won the Nobel Prize in 1973. For over twenty years, he was the Henry Lee Professor of Economics at Harvard University. The Wassily Leontief personal archive documents Leontief's academic and professional activity from 1928 to 2001. The material is pertinent to the history of economics, especially the application of the input-output method of economic analysis and the integration of economic theory and...