Synopsis

Wassily Leontief was the founding father of input-output economics, for which he received the Nobel Prize in 1973. This book offers a collection of papers in his memory by his students and close colleagues. The first part focuses upon Leontief as an individual and scholar as well as his personal contributions to economics; the second includes new theoretical and empirical research inspired by Leontief's efforts. The collection offers a comprehensive sample of the current state of interindustry economics and is likely to appeal to a wide range of professionals.

Biography

Erik Dietzenbacher is Associate Professor of International Economics and Business at the University of Groningen, The Netherlands. He is co-editor of Input-Output Analysis: Frontiers and Extensions (with Michael L. Lahr, 2001), Input-Output Analysis (three volumes, with Heinz D. Kurz and Christian Lager, 1998) and is currently editor of Economic Systems Research, the official journal of the International Input-Output Association.

Michael L. Lahr is Associate Research Professor at the Center for Urban Policy Research, Rutgers University, New Jersey. He is co-editor of Input-Output Analysis: Frontiers and Extensions (with Erik Dietzenbacher, 2001) and Regional Science Perspectives in Economics: A Festschrift in Memory of Benjamin H. Stevens (with Ronald E. Miller, 2001).