Leontief and Input Output tables

• Input-Output economics by Gunter Krumme of the University of Washington.
• Structure of the World Economy: Outline of a Simple Input-Output Formulation by Wassily Leontief.
  American Economic Review, 64:6 (Dec.1974), pp.823-34.
  Not for detailed reading but for a quick overview of the principles involved.
• Quantitative Input and Output Relations in the Economic Systems of the United States
  by Wassily Leontief Review of Economic Statistics, 18:3 (Aug.1936), pp. 105-125

The Leontief Paradox

• Domestic Production and Foreign Trade: The American Capital Position Re-Examined
  by Wassily Leontief
  Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society,97:4 (Sept.1953) pp.322-349.
• Factor Proportions and the Structure of American Trade: Further Theoretical and Empirical Analysis
  by Wassily Leontief. Review of Economic Statistics,38:4(Nov.1956), pp. 386-407.

Paradox lost: Explanations of the Leontief Paradox

• Nature, Capital and Trade
  by Peter Kenen
  Journal of Political Economy, 73:5(Oct.,1965), 437-60.
• The Leontief Paradox, Reconsidered
  by Edward E. Leamer
  Journal of Political Economy, 88:3(June,1980), 495-503.
  Leontief simply mismeasured the factor content of trade.

Paradox regained: Recent Empirical Work

• Multicountry, Multifactor Tests of the Factor Abundance Theory
  by Harry P. Bowen, Edward E. Leamer and Leo Sveikauskas. American Economic Review, 77:5 (Dec.,1987), 791-809
  Leontief is correct, based on modern data. The second author is the same Edward Leamer.

• International Factor Price Differences: Leontief was Right!
  by Daniel Trefler
  Journal of Political Economy, 101:6(Dec.,1993), 961-987.
• An Account of Global Factor Trade
  by Donald R. Davis and David E. Weinstein American Economic Review, 91:5(Dec. 2001), 1423-1453.
  See also their Factor Content of Trade and their Do Factor Endowments Matter for North-North Trade? (NBER working paper 8516,Oct. 2001). Their work strongly suggests that, although the Heckscher-Ohlin theory does not explain everything, factor endowements still matter, even for trade among industrialized countries.