| Wassily Leontief  Born: 5-Aug-1906
Birthplace: St. Petersburg, Russia
Died: 5-Feb-1999
Location of death: New York City
Cause of death: unspecified
Gender: Male
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Economist Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Structure of the American Economy Father: Wassily W. Leontief (economics professor)
Mother: Eugenia
Wife: Estelle Marks (poet, m. 1932, d. 2005, one daughter)
Daughter: Svetlana Leontief Alpers (arts professor, b. 1936)
University: University of Leningrad (1921-25)
University: PhD Economics, University of Berlin (1925-28)
Professor: Economics, Harvard University (1931-75)
Professor: Economics, New York University (1975-99)
Nobel Prize for Economics 1973
French Legion of Honor 1968
Econometric Society President (1954)
American Economic Association President (1970)
American Philosophical Society
American Association for the Advancement of Science
International Statistical Institute
Royal Statistical Society Honorary Member
Harvard Society of Fellows
Naturalized US Citizen
Author of books:
The Structure of the American Economy 1919–1929 (1941, economics)
Studies in the Structure of the American Economy (1953, economics)
Input-Output Economics (1966)
Essays in Economics (1966)
Essays in Economics, II (1977)
The Future of the World Economy (1977)
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