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11 quotes by Lawrence R. Klein

Lawrence Robert Klein (September 14, 1920 – October 20, 2013) was an American economist. For his work in creating computer models to forecast economic trends in the field of econometrics in the Department of Economics at the University of Pennsylvania, he was awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 1980 specifically "for the creation of econometric models and their application to the analysis of economic fluctuations and...
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An early fascination with higher mathematics at the university level blossomed into speculative thinking that could provide a basis for dealing with... →

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

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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... →

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Although I was not aware of it at the time, the experience of growing up during the Great Depression was to have a profound impact on my intellectual... →

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The funds from the sale were put into research and general teaching budgets at the university. Wharton Econometric Forecasting Associates, Inc., is... →

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It came as a surprise to find that a professional society and journal (Econometrica) were flourishing, and I entered this area of study with great... →

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On the way from Chicago, I spent the summer of 1947 in Ottawa, helping to build the first of a series of econometric models for the Canadian... →

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My early education was in the public school system of Omaha, where, retrospectively, I realize that my high school training served me in good stead... →

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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... →

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During the early 1960s, I decided to supplement research support for quantitative economic studies at Pennsylvania by selling econometric forecasts... →

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After my first visit to Japan, in 1960, to work on a joint model building project at Osaka University, I maintained a continuing interest in the... →

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