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The Case against “Indirect” Statistical Inference: Wassily Leontief’s “Direct Induction” and The Structure of American Economy, 1919–29
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History of Political Economy (2021) 53 (S1): 259–292.
Published: 01 December 2021
...Amanar Akhabbar How to infer from uncontrolled data the numerical values of the parameters of an econometric model? In interwar econometrics, this problem of statistical induction was tackled in various ways. Wassily Leontief’s inter-industry method offers a case study of a nonprobabilistic...
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Wassily Leontief's Research Program: Science, Beliefs, Institutions
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History of Political Economy (2024) 56 (4): 653–684.
Published: 01 August 2024
...Vincent Carret Abstract Wassily Leontief met with decades of success for the development of input-output analysis, and yet he remained a staunch critic of the economics profession throughout his life. To understand his success, its limits, and the origins of his discontent, this article separates...
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Leontief and the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, 1941-54: Developing a Framework for Measurement
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History of Political Economy (2001) 33 (Suppl_1): 190–212.
Published: 01 December 2001
... Evans, and Marvin Hoffenberg. 1947a . Full Employment Patterns, 1950: Part 1. Monthly Labor Review February: 63 -190. ____. 1947b . Full Employment Patterns, 1950: Part 2. Monthly Labor Review March: 420 -32. Dorfman, Robert. 1973 . Wassily Leontief's Contribution to Economics. Swedish...
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Models, Measurement, and “Universal Patterns”: Jan Tinbergen and Development Planning without Theory
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History of Political Economy (2018) 50 (S1): 231–248.
Published: 01 December 2018
.... 1998 . “ An Interview with Wassily Leontief .” Macroeconomic Dynamics 2 : 116 – 40 . Friedman Milton . 1951 . “ Comment .” In Conference on Business Cycles , 107 – 14 . New York : National Bureau of Economic Research . Halsmayer Verena . 2014 . “ From Exploratory Modeling...
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Marxist Models of Cyclical Growth
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History of Political Economy (1971) 3 (1): 28–55.
Published: 01 March 1971
... , Lange. Introduction to Econometrics . New York, 1959 . Wassily , Leontief. “The Significance of Marxian Economics for Present-Day Economic Theory.” American Economic Review 28 (March 1938 ): supplement. Wassily , Leontief. The Structure of the American Economy, 1919–1939 . New...
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History of Political Economy 11948201.
Published: 04 June 2025
... model is not a model of the world but of other models. These other models could be rather complex, such as Wassily Leontief s big science input-output models. Chapter 4, titled Growth in Miniature, shows that Solow constructed this teaching, talkative model to find out about the growth dynamics...
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The Circulation of Capital: Essays on Volume Two of Marx's Capital
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History of Political Economy (2000) 32 (4): 1045–1047.
Published: 01 November 2000
..., for example, not to mention Evgenii Preobrazhensky, Wassily Leontief,
and the Soviet planners of the 1920s and early 1930s. A few of these theorists are
mentioned, but none of their work receives the detailed attention that it deserves.
For the most part, then, and with the exception of Smith’s excellent...
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Contributors
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History of Political Economy (2021) 53 (S1): 324–326.
Published: 01 December 2021
... economics. In 2019, he published Wassily Leontief et la science economique, elaborating on Leon- tief s economic epistemology in its historical context. Jeff Biddle is professor of economics at Michigan State University. His research interest is the history of economics in the United States during...
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Writing about Economics
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History of Political Economy (2023) 55 (S1): 145–148.
Published: 01 December 2023
... John McDonald, who had written about Oskar Morgenstern and John von Neumann for Fortune , where Silk had written about Swedish housing policy. Silk had grown closer to the field—his second book, The Research Revolution (McGraw-Hill, 1960), was about Wassily Leontief—and so did I. Knowledge...
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Samuelson Friedman: The Battle over the Free Market by Nicholas Wapshott
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History of Political Economy (2024) 56 (4): 749–754.
Published: 01 August 2024
... of the profession, each eloquent in a different way, what is there not to like in the book? Unfortunately, rather a lot. The book contains a disconcertingly large number of factual errors. For example, Wassily Leontief and Alvin Hansen, two of Samuelson's teachers, are included in a list of “German and Austrian...
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Economics in America: the Continental Influence
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History of Political Economy (1987) 19 (2): 173–182.
Published: 01 June 1987
... of the Amer-
ican Economic Association, ten presidents of the Association have been
of European birth, eight were established scholars before coming to the
United States, seven of these from continental Europe (Schumpeter, Gott-
fried Haberler, Fritz Machlup, William Fellner, Wassily Leontief, Jacob...
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Keynes’ Employment Function Reexamined
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History of Political Economy (1976) 8 (3): 428–434.
Published: 01 September 1976
... theory of
consumer demand have been reduced nearly to an empty set. Cf. Kelvin Lancaster,
“A New Approach to Consumer Theory,” Journal of Political Economy 74 (1966)
132.
7. Wassily Leontief, “Implicit Theorizing: A Methodological Criticism of the
Neo-Cambridge School,” in his Essays...
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Reflections on the Development of Economics as a Discipline
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History of Political Economy (1984) 16 (4): 489–517.
Published: 01 November 1984
... theory in the mathematical mode.’ In Les Prix Nobel 1983 (Stockholm, forthcoming); and American Economic Review 74, no. 3: 267 -78. Dorfman , R. 1973 . ‘Wassily Leontief's contribution to economies.’ Swedish Journal of Economics 75 no. 4 : 430 -49. Findlay , Ronald 1980 . ‘On W...
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Dynamizing Stability
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History of Political Economy (2009) 41 (Suppl_1): 127–146.
Published: 01 December 2009
... with Herbert
Simon’s (1951) account of technological change, which is very much on a
disaggregate level.1 It is even more striking when one realizes that Solow
was a student of Wassily Leontief, the designer and builder of large and
detailed input-output tables.2 It seems that Solow himself did...
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Assessing the Economic Consequences of Disarmament: The Work of the United Nations’ 1962 Consultative Group on Conversion
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History of Political Economy (2020) 52 (5): 895–924.
Published: 01 October 2020
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1941 . The Structure of the American Economy, 1919–1929 . Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press .
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1944 . “ Output, Employment, Consumption, and Investment .” Quarterly Journal of Economics 58 , no. 2 : 290 – 314 .
Leontief...
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From Exploratory Modeling to Technical Expertise: Solow’s Growth Model as a Multipurpose Design
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History of Political Economy (2014) 46 (suppl_1): 229–251.
Published: 01 December 2014
... C. , ed. 1951 . Activity Analysis of Production and Allocation . Cowles Commission Monograph 13 . New York : John Wiley and Sons . Leontief Wassily . 1953 . The Structure of the American Economy . Oxford : Oxford University Press . ———. 1965 . “ An Institute for Technical...
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MIT and the Origins of the Modern Theory of Asset Pricing
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History of Political Economy (2024) 56 (3): 513–535.
Published: 01 June 2024
... names would be there—Kenneth Arrow, Wassily Leontief, Zvi Griliches, Robert Dorfman, Hendrik Houthakker—and important faculty would be visiting from other area universities as well. As a further mark of the event's special status, no students would be allowed to attend—no students, that is, except...
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Decisions and Dynamics: Postwar Theoretical Problems and the MIT Style of Economics
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History of Political Economy (2014) 46 (suppl_1): 295–314.
Published: 01 December 2014
... acknowledge the importance of connections between LP and the
Harvard economist Wassily Leontief’s input-output models of national
economic structures.
The original developer of LP, the mathematician George Dantzig (1963,
2002), consistently acknowledged that his formulation of linear program-
ming...
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Theory and Measurement: Emergence, Consolidation, and Erosion of a Consensus
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History of Political Economy (2017) 49 (Supplement): 34–57.
Published: 01 December 2017
... of Econometrics .” American Economic Review 73 ( March ): 31 – 43 . Leamer Edward . 2010 . “ Tantalus on the Road to Asymptopia .” Journal of Economic Perspectives 24 ( Spring ): 31 – 46 . Leontief Wassily . 1950 . The Structure of American Economy, 1919–1939: An Empirical...
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Making Measuring Instruments
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History of Political Economy (2001) 33 (Suppl_1): 235–251.
Published: 01 December 2001
... strategy by Simon Kuznets, Richard
Stone, and Wassily Leontief; and most recently to James Heckman and Daniel McFadden, who
fashioned the econometric techniques which enabled economists to use survey data effectively.
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