William John Fellner (born ''Fellner Vilmos'' on May 31, 1905 – September 15, 1983) was a

Hungarian-American Hungarian Americans ( Hungarian: ''amerikai magyarok'') are Americans of Hungarian descent. The U.S. Census Bureau has estimated that there are approximately 1.396 million Americans of Hungarian descent as of 2018. The total number of people wit ...

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and Sterling Professor of Economics at

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from 1952 until his retirement in 1973. Born in

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, he studied at the

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, the ETH Zurich and the Frederick William University in Berlin, where he received his Ph.D. in economics in 1929, one year after

Wassily Leontief Wassily Wassilyevich Leontief (russian: Васи́лий Васи́льевич Лео́нтьев; August 5, 1905 – February 5, 1999), was a Soviet-American economist known for his research on input–output analysis and how changes in one ec ...

. Fellner served on the Council of Economic Advisers from 1973 to 1975.

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* 1905 births 1983 deaths Hungarian emigrants to the United States 20th-century American economists Humboldt University of Berlin alumni Yale University faculty Yale Sterling Professors Writers from Budapest Fellows of the Econometric Society Presidents of the American Economic Association Distinguished Fellows of the American Economic Association United States Council of Economic Advisers Member of the Mont Pelerin Society {{US-economist-stub