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In reponse to Anil  Nauriya's Leontief quotes: 
 
Actually, it is also important for historians of economics to understand 
how old Leontief was in 1970 relative to his more active younger 
colleagues, what his own level of mathematical skill at that time was 
relative to that of the "youngsters" among whom he was increasingly 
marginalized, and thus to contextualize his remarks. A senior statesman 
may, on many such ceremonial occasions, be projecting his own discomfitures 
(at a world that had passed him by) onto a broader canvas.   
 
Just because an economist "likes" what Leontief said in 1970 does not 
relieve the historian of economics of the obligation of contextualization, 
which seeks both the personal and social context of the public utterance. 
 
E. Roy Weintraub 
 
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