Wassily Wassilyovitch Leontief (Russian: Василий Васильевич Леонтьев; August 5, 1905, Munich, Germany – February 5, 1999, New York), was an economist notable for his research on how changes in one economic sector may have an effect on other sectors. Leontief won a Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 1973.
Wassily Leontief was born on August 5, 1905 in Munich, Germany as the son of Wassily W. Leontief (professor of Economics) and Zlata (o...
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Wassily Wassilyovitch Leontief (Russian: Василий Васильевич Леонтьев; August 5, 1905, Munich, Germany – February 5, 1999, New York), was an economist notable for his research on how changes in one economic sector may have an effect on other sectors. Leontief won a Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 1973.
Wassily Leontief was born on August 5, 1905 in Munich, Germany as the son of Wassily W. Leontief (professor of Economics) and Zlata (or Genya, later Eugenia) Becker (see original birth certificate here). The Nobel Prize website, however, lists his birth year as 1906 and place of birth as St. Petersburg. W. Leontief Sr. belonged to a dynasty of old-believer merchants living in St. Petersburg since 1741. Genya Becker belonged to a wealthy Jewish family from Odessa. At 15, Wassily Jr. entered the University of Leningrad in present day St. Petersburg in 1921. He earned his Learned Economist degree (equivalent to Master of Arts) in 1924 at the age of 19.
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