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Wassily Leontief, Russian-American economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1906)

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Wassily Leontief

Soviet-American economist and Nobel Laureate (1906–1999)

Wassily Wassilyevich Leontief was a Soviet-American economist known for his research on input–output analysis and how changes in one economic sector may affect other sectors.
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Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences

Award established in 1968 by Sveriges Riksbank

The Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, officially the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel, commonly referred to as the Nobel Prize in Economics, is an award in the field of economic sciences administered by the Nobel Foundation,…
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February 5

Day of the year

February 5 is the 36th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar; 329 days remain until the end of the year.
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