Lawrence R. Klein

Economist

1920-09-14

Quotes by Lawrence R. Klein

• An early fascination with higher mathematics at the university level blossomed into speculative thinking that could provide a basis for dealing with economic issues.

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• During the early 1960s, I decided to supplement research support for quantitative economic studies at Pennsylvania by selling econometric forecasts to private and public sector buyers.

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• The completion of my undergraduate training at the University of California (Berkeley) provided just the needed touches of rigor at advanced levels in both economics and mathematics.

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• The SSRC committee turned attention from team research for building a model of the United States to doing one for world trade in order to investigate the international transmission mechanism.

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• I, Lawrence Klein, was born in Omaha, Nebraska, as were my elder brother and younger sister.

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