Input-output economics.(Wassily Leontief and Input-Output Economics)(Book Review)

Wassily Leontief and Input-Output Economics. Edited by Erik Dietzenbacher and Michael L. Lahr. New York, Cambridge University Press, 2004, 418 pp., $80/hardcover.

Many economists know that Wassily Leontief--the Russian-born, German-educated, decades-long member of the Harvard faculty--won a Nobel Prize, but few of them recognize how much his work has changed economics. After Leontief's death in 1999, the editors of this volume organized a memorial session and invited contributions from a number of his colleagues and former students. As the editors explain in a brief…