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The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 1975

"for their contributions to the theory of optimum allocation of resources"
Leonid Vitaliyevich Kantorovich Tjalling C. Koopmans
Leonid Vitaliyevich Kantorovich Tjalling C. Koopmans
half 1/2 of the prize half 1/2 of the prize
USSR USA
Academy of Sciences
Moscow, USSR		 Yale University
New Haven, CT, USA
b. 1912
d. 1986		 b. 1910
(in 's Graveland, the Netherlands)
d. 1985
 
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