Lawrence R. Klein

(1920- ) born in Omaha. Economist, educator, author, pioneered an economic theory for forecasting business fluctuations and for assessing effects of various economic policy measures, recipient of 1980 Nobel Prize in economics for his synthesis of mathematics, statistics, and economics into the discipline now known as econometrics. Consult Tyler Wasson ed, Nobel Prize Winners (H.W. Wilson, 1987) 556-558.

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