Wassily Leontief
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
Prize motivation: "for the development of the input-output method and for its application to important economic problems"
Field: input-output analysis
Contribution: Creator of the input-output technique, a method that provides tools for a systematic analysis of the complicated inter-industry transactions in an economy.
Prize share: 1/1
Wassily Leontief
