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Wassily Leontief, (born August 5, 1906, St. Petersburg, Russia—died February 5, 1999, New York, New York, U.S.), Russian-born American economist who has been called the father of input-output analysis in econometrics and who won the Nobel Prize for Economics in 1973.

Biographical. I was born August 5, 1906, and spent my childhood and youth in St. Petersburg (now Leningrad) where my father was a professor of economics. * Among my early indelible memories are: the country plunged into deep mourning the day of Leo Tolstoy’s death; stray bullets whistling by during the first days of the February Revolution ...

Wassily Leontief was a Russian-American economist who made several contributions to the world of economics. Leontief won the Nobel Prize in 1973 for his research on input-output analysis....

Wassily Wassilyevich Leontief. The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 1973. Born: 5 August 1906, St. Petersburg, Russia. Died: 5 February 1999, New York, NY, USA. Affiliation at the time of the award: Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA.

Wassily Leontief 1906-1999 F rom the time he was a young man growing up in Saint Petersburg, Wassily Leontief devoted his studies to input-output analysis. When he left Russia at the age of nineteen to begin the Ph.D. program at the University of Berlin, he had already shown how leon walras ’s abstract equilibrium theory could be quantified.

Wassily Leontief, who won the Nobel prize in economics in 1973 for his analyses of America's production machinery, showing how changes in one sector of the economy can exact changes all along the...

Wassily Leontief (1906 - 1999) Category » Biography Wassily Leontief, born at St. Petersburg (Leningrad), USSR (now Russia ), was an economist notable for his research on how changes in one economic sector may have an effect on other sectors. Leontief won the Nobel Prize in 1973.

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.