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We move from more or less plausible but really arbitrary assumptions, to elegantly demonstrated but irrelevant conclusions.

Wassily Leontief

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Wassily Leontief
Age: 93 †
Born: 1905
Born: August 5
Died: 1999
Died: February 5
Economist
Pedagogue
Statistician
St. Petersburg
Wassily W. Leontief
Moving
Conclusions
Really
Arbitrary
Irrelevant
Assumption
Conclusion
Elegantly
Economics
Demonstrated
Move
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