LEONTIEF, Wassily. "Mathematics in Economics", in Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society, 60/3, May 1954, pp 215-233 in the issue of pp 207-302.
Original wrappers; the bright green spine has dulled somewhat to a brown (as is usual with this publication), but still a very nice, fresh copy. $95
Wassily Wassilyevich Leontief, (1906-1999) "was an American economist known for his research on input-output analysis and how changes in one economic sector may affect other sectors...Leontief won the Nobel Committee's Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 1973, and four of his doctoral students have also been awarded the prize (Paul Samuelson 1970, Robert Solow 1987, Vernon L. Smith 2002, Thomas Schelling 2005)."--Wiki
From the Nobel Foundation (for Leontief's award in economics for 1973):
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.
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