Up for auction "Nobel Prize in Economics" Wassily Leontief Hand Written Note. This item is certified authentic by ToddMueller Autographs and comes with their Certificate of Authenticity.ES-8768EWassily Wassilyevich Leontief (Russian: Василий Васильевич Леонтьев; August 5, 1905 – February 5, 1999), was aRussian-American economist known forhis research on input-output analysis andhow changes in one economic sector mayaffect other sectors. Leontief won the Nobel Committee's Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in1973, and four of his doctoral students have also been awarded the prize (Paul Samuelson 1970, Robert Solow 1987, Vernon L. Smith 2002, ThomasSchelling 2005). Wassily Leontief was born on August 5, 1906,in Munich, Germany, the son of Wassily W.Leontief (professor of Economics) andZlata (German spelling Slata; later Evgenia) Leontief (née Becker). W.Leontief, Sr., belonged to a family of old-believer merchantsliving in St. Petersburg since1741. Genya Becker belonged to a wealthy Jewish family from Odessa. At 15 in 1921, Wassily, Jr.,entered University of Leningrad inpresent-day St. Petersburg. He earned hisLearned Economist degree (equivalent to Masterof Arts) in 1925 at the age of 19. Leontief sided with campaigners foracademic autonomy, freedom of speech and in support of Pitirim Sorokin. As a consequence, he was detainedseveral times by the Cheka. In 1925, hewas allowed to leave the USSR, mostly because the Cheka believedthat he was mortally ill with a sarcoma,a diagnosis that later proved false. He continued his studies at the Frederick William University in Berlin and, in1928 earned a Ph.D. degree in economics under the direction of Werner Sombart, writing his dissertation on TheEconomy as Circular Flow (original German title: DieWirtschaft als Kreislauf). From 1927 to 19Powered by ExportYourStore