Economists who built the quantitative toolkit of the field, including input-output analysis, linear programming and econometric models. An economist belongs here when the cited article credits the person with mathematical or econometric methods. The group brings together the entries filed under the heading Mathematical Economists and Econometricians, so a reader can compare them and move from one to another within the same part of the economic field.
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Wikipedia: Leonid Kantorovich
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Leonid Vitalyevich Kantorovich (Russian: Леонид Витальевич Канторович, IPA: [lʲɪɐˈnʲit vʲɪˈtalʲjɪvʲɪtɕ kəntɐˈrovʲɪtɕ] ; 19 January 1912-7 April 1986) was a Soviet mathematician and economist, known for his theory and development of techniques for the optimal allocation of resources.
Wikipedia: Wassily Leontief
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Wassily Wassilyevich Leontief (Russian: Васи́лий Васи́льевич Лео́нтьев; August 5, 1905, February 5, 1999) was a Russian-American economist known for his research on input-output analysis and how changes in one economic sector may affect other sectors.
Jan Tinbergen (Wikipedia)
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He is widely considered to be one of the most influential economists of the 20th century and one of the founding fathers of econometrics.
Ragnar Frisch (Wikipedia)
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Ragnar Anton Kittil Frisch (3 March 1895-31 January 1973) was an influential Norwegian economist and econometrician known for being one of the major contributors to establishing economics as a quantitative and statistically informed science in the early 20th century.
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