Lawrence Klein

Lawrence Robert Klein (born September 14, 1920) is an American economist.

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Klein was born in Omaha, Nebraska, and is of Jewish descent. For his work in creating computer models to forecast economic trends in the field of econometrics at the University of Pennsylvania, he was awarded the Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel in 1980. Specifically "for the creation of economic models and their application to the analysis of economic fluctuations and economic policies." Thanks to his work such models became widespread among economists.

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Omaha, Nebraska - Jew - Econometrics - University of Pennsylvania - Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel - 1980 - Economists

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