PEOPLE

Wassily Leontief

BIRTH DATE:  8/5/1906
DEATH DATE:  2/5/99
CRAFT:  Economics
NATIONALITY:  Russian-American
PROFESSION:  economist
TRAVELS:  Notable for his research on how changes in one economic sector may have an effect on other sectors. Leontief's paradox (1953) states that the country with the world's highest capital-per worker has a lower capital/labor ratio in exports than in imports.
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