Leontief

[ lee-on-tee-ef, -uhf ]

noun

1. Was·si·ly [vah-, see, -lee], 1906–1999, U.S. economist, born in Russia: Nobel Prize 1973.

Example Sentences

Leontief wanted economists to spend more time getting to know their data, and less time in mathematical modelling.

From The Guardian

Most economists still reject Professor Leontief’s analogy, but the conventional economic consensus is starting to fray.

From New York Times

Developed by Nobel Prize–winning economist Wassily Leontief, the data estimate the environmental emissions and energy consumed while making individual products.

From Science Magazine

Nina Oding, an economist at the city's Leontief Centre, criticised "clumsy efforts by the state somehow to regulate price formation".

From BBC

In 2008, he won the Leontief Prize for “advancing the frontiers of economic thought.”

From Washington Post