Wassily Leontief witnessed history. He was a young boy when his country mourned the death of Leo Tolstoy. He saw Lenin speaking to a crowd in front of the Winter Palace. As a young academic, he ...

The Rockefeller Foundation announced yesterday a six-year grant of $240,000 to Wassily W. Leontief, Henry Lee Professor of Economics, for continuing his research on the American economy.

One of the most carefully guarded files in the Littauer Building is a folder of eighty odd sketches of members of the Economics Department by Professor Wassily Leontief. The secretaries of the ...