programme of wassily leontief’s centenary celebration in progress

VI Annual Leontief Conference Problems of Economics and Politics

September 29th-30th, 2006 the  VI Annual Leontief Conference Problems of Economics and Politics was  held.

Conference Organizers: St.Petersburg Government, International Centre for Social and Economic Research Leontief Centre (St. Petersburg), RAO UES of Russia (Moscow), Association of Russian Economic Think Tanks (Moscow), St. Petersburg Institute for Economics and Mathematics, Russian Academy of Sciences.

The plenary session started after the welcoming notes from the Conference organizers and guests. The plenary session of the Conference was devoted to the discussion of long-term perspectives of world economy development and issues of Russian renaissance in the context of world economic development tendencies.

The Programme included four parallel section meetings: “Economic Policy”, “Demographic Transition and Social Policy”, “Wassily Leontief's Works and Modern Mathematical Economics” and “Transformation of Institutions”.

In the view of jubilee nature of the Sixth Annual Conference “Leontief Readings”, its Programme included festive events and actions, devoted to Wassily Leontief Centenary.

One of the section meetings “Wassily Leontief's works and modern mathematical economics” was timed to Wassily Leontief’s Centenary (it was organized by Leontief Centre jointly with Russian Academy of Science Institute for Mathematical Economics). This section was devoted to discussion of modern trends of economic and mathematical modeling and mathematical instruments of relevant economic research. Wassily Leontief’s Input-Output Models and his contribution to economic science in general were viewed from the positions of neoclassical theory and modern modeling of regional economic development. At the section the summarizing reports about results and new attitudes to the implementation of mathematical methods in economic research, including quality assessment of institutes and their influence on economic development were made. Details...

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In the framework of Leontief Readings Conference on 30th of September a Solemn Session devoted to Wassily Leontief Centenary was held, which included:

• Ceremony of awarding with International Leontief medal in nomination for "Contribution to Economic Reforms" of nominees 2006

• Presentation of Wassily Leontief web portal ;

• Report of the Organizing Committee on Preparation to Celebration of Wassily Leontief Centenary (rus)

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Sponsors and co-organizers:

	Saint-Ptersburg Government financed implementation of series of actions for organization and carrying out the Sixth International Conference “Leontief Readings” (29th-30th of September 2006) which confined with Wassily Leontief Centenary
	RAO UES of Russia financed organization and carrying out the following events which are realized in the framework of the Sixth International Conference “Leontief Readings” (29th-30th of September 2006): Session: Wassily Leontief's Works and Modern Mathematical Economics; Working meeting and session of the Organizing Committee with report on Preparation to Celebration of Wassily Leontief Centenary