Leontief Prize
The Leontief Prize (English: Leontief Prize ) is a science award in economics . The award is dedicated to the Russian Nobel Prize in Economics, Wassily Leontief , and has been presented annually by the Tufts University- based Global Development and Environment Institute since 2000, with two exceptions. According to the foundation statutes, the prize is intended to honor exceptional contributions to economics that deal with actual circumstances and promote a just and sustainable society.
Award winners
- 2000: Amartya Sen and John Kenneth Galbraith
- 2001: Herman Daly and Paul Streeten
- 2002: Alice Amsden and Dani Rodrik
- 2003: Prize not awarded
- 2004: Robert Frank and Nancy Folbre
- 2005: Chang Ha-joon and Richard R. Nelson
- 2006: Juliet Schor and Samuel Bowles
- 2007: Stephen DeCanio and Jomo Kwame Sundaram
- 2008: José Antonio Ocampo and Robert Wade
- 2009: Prize not awarded
- 2010: Bina Agarwal and Daniel Kahneman
- 2011: Nicholas Stern and Martin Weitzman
- 2012: Michael Lipton and Peter Timmer
- 2013: Albert O. Hirschman and Frances Stewart
- 2014: Angus Deaton and James K. Galbraith
- 2015: Duncan Foley and Lance Taylor
- 2016: Amit Bhaduri and Diane Elson
- 2017: James Boyce and Joan Martínez-Alier
- 2018: Mariana Mazzucato and Branko Milanović
Web links
- Leontief Prize at the Economics in Context Initiative at Boston University (bu.edu)
- Leontief Prize at Tufts University (tufts.edu) ( Memento from September 24, 2019 in the Internet Archive )