Input-Output economic analysis, developed by Wassily Leontief, for which he won the Nobel Prize, continues to be an active area of research. Not only do academics find it a powerful tool in understanding how large-scale economies–especially national economies–work, but many governments maintain computer input-output models to study their own economies. This is a volume of modern research using the I-O model focusing on technology, planning, and development.

Contributors: S. De Boer, G. Broesterhuizen, Chia-Yon Chen, E. Fontela, A. Ghosh, A. G. Granberg, L. Halpern, Fumimasa Hamada, Kiyo Harada, Yoshiko Kido, Jacob Kol, P. N. Mathur, Yuji Matsumura, G. Molnar, Shin Nagata, Shinichiro Nakamura, D. P. Pal, William Peterson, Leon Podkaminer, A. Pulido, Adam Rose, A. G. Rubinshtein, V. E. Seliverstov, Shuntaro Shishido, Carsten Stahmer, V. I. Suslov, Bohdan Wyznikiewicz, Leszek Ziendowski