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  Lawrence Klein - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Klein was born in Omaha, Nebraska, and is of Jewish descent.
At the University of Michigan, Klein developed enhanced macroeconomic models, in particular the famous Klein-Goldberger model with Arthur Goldberger, which was based on foundations laid by Professor Jan Tinbergen of the Netherlands, later winner of the first economics prize in 1969.
Klein had been a member of the American Communist Party in 1946 and 1944 while in Chicago; he later said that this was the result of youthful naïveté.
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 Knowledge King - Lawrence Klein   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
At the University of Michigan, Klein developed enhanced economic models, in particular the famous Klein-Goldberger model with Arthur Goldberger, which was based on foundations laid by Professor Jan Tinbergen of the Netherlands, later winner of the first economics prize in 1969.
Klein had been a member of the American Communist Party in 1946 and 1944 while in Chicago; he later said that this was the result of youthful naivete.
In England, Klein developed a model of the United Kingdom economy at the University of Oxford, before returning to the USA in 1958 to join the Department of Economics at the University of Pennsylvania, then became "Benjamin Franklin Professor of Economics and Finance" at their Wharton Business School in 1968.
www.knowledgeking.net /encyclopedia/l/la/lawrence_klein.html   (683 words)

  
 Lawrence Klein -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Lawrence Robert Klein (born September 14, 1920) is an (A native or inhabitant of the United States) American (An expert in the science of economics) economist.
Klein was born in (Click link for more info and facts about Omaha, Nebraska) Omaha, Nebraska, and is of (A person belonging to the worldwide group claiming descent from Jacob (or converted to it) and connected by cultural or religious ties) Jewish descent.
Klein then moved to the Cowles Commission for Research in Economics, which was then at the University of Chicago, now the.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/l/la/lawrence_klein.htm   (729 words)

  
 Lawrence Klein - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Professor Klein is a graduate of the University of California, Berkeley, where he began his computer modeling; he earned his PhD at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 1944.
Klein then moved to the, which was then at the University of Chicago, now the Cowles Foundation (http://cowles.econ.yale.edu/).
Klein has also been president of the and the (in 1977).
www.hackettstown.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Lawrence_Klein   (747 words)

  
 87452 -- Brenner v. Oppenheimer & Co. -- Abbott -- Kansas Supreme Court
Klein filed an affidavit with the Johnson District Court stating that in January 1997, a trade of 9,000 shares of QPQ Corp. stock were identified as "unsolicited" on the trade confirmation statement from Oppenheimer.
Klein and Brenner contend that due to the strong public policy of the State of Kansas for the protection of investors, this court should refuse to enforce the choice of law provision in Oppenheimer's standard form agreement.
Klein and Brenner contend that the protections of the Kansas Securities Act are to be given a broad application and, therefore, to ignore public policy by enforcing the contractual provision would contradict prior Kansas case law.
www.kscourts.org /kscases/supct/2002/20020419/87452.htm   (8259 words)

  
 Lawrence Klein
Lawrence Robert Klein was born in Omaha, Nebraska, and is of Jewish descent.
During the last three decades, Lawrence Klein has proved to be the leading research worker within the field of the economic science which deals with the construction and analysis of empirical models of business fluctuations.
Klein's early publications are mainly of a methodological character.
www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org /jsource/biography/LawrenceKlein.html   (1162 words)

  
 Boston Globe Online / Table of Contents   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
In the traditional ceremony of champagne after breakfast, Klein stood in front of his class at the University of Pennsyvania yesterday and said he had never dreamed he could accomplish so much with mathematical models, the long chains of equations whose solutions are supposed to predict the behavior of the world's economy.
Klein's first econometric model enabled him to predict an upsurge in postwar economic activity, instead of the depression expected by most economists, including the man who trained him - Paul Samuelson of MIT, still another Nobel winner.
Klein went to England and built a model of that country's economy before returning to the United States, where he went to the University of Michigan and then to the University of Pennsylvania.
www.boston.com /globe/search/stories/nobel/1980/1980g.html   (784 words)

  
 Lawrence Klein: Definition and Links by Encyclopedian.com - All about Lawrence Klein   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Professor Klein is a graduate of the University of California, Berkeley, where he began his comuter modelling, and gained his PhD at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 1944.
This was prompted by Senator Joseph McCarthy's anti-communist "witch-hunt", and the fact that his continuing tenure at Michegan was denied him.
The aim of this was to produce the world's first global economic model, linking models of many of the world's countires so that the effect of changes in the economy of one country are reflected in other countries.
www.encyclopedian.com /la/Lawrence-Klein.html   (703 words)

  
 Boston Globe Online / Table of Contents   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Klein, an economic adviser to Jimmy Carter during his 1976 presidential campaign, was cited by the Swedish Academy of Sciences "for the creation of econometric models and their application to the analysis of economic fluctuations and economic policies."
Klein, 60, has served as an unofficial adviser to Carter but never joined the Administration, in part because of a youthful association with the American Communist Party, sources said.
Klein said during the campaign that his Communist Party affiliation was more than 20 years ago and was the result of youthful naivete.
www.boston.com /globe/search/stories/nobel/1980/1980k.html   (745 words)

  
 Lawrence Klein - Wikipedia
Seine Kindheit und Jugendjahre waren überschattet von der Weltwirtschaftskrise, was seine späteren beruflichen Interessen förderte, ebenso wie seine schon an der Schule auffallende Begabung für Mathematik.
Die antikommunistische Kampagne von Senator McCarthy verhinderte eine Festanstellung von Klein an der Universität Michigan, weil er von 1944 bis 1946 Mitglied der amerikanischen kommunistischen Partei war.
Klein erarbeitete in den 60er Jahren eine Serie ausgefeilter ökonometrischer Modelle, die als Wharton-Modelle weite Anwendung fanden.
de.wikipedia.org /wiki/Lawrence_Klein   (574 words)

  
 Lawrence Klein   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Lawrence Klein is a partner in Sedgwick’s New York office.
Klein has represented companies ranging in size from small start-ups to multinational entities in connection with all manner of employment and other labor-related issues and disputes, including claims based on discrimination, wrongful-termination, harassment and breach of contract.
Klein is admitted to practice in New York (1985) and before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second, Seventh and Eleventh Circuits.
www.sdma.com /bios?lawrence.Klein.html   (177 words)

  
 Lawrence, Robert --  Britannica Student Encyclopedia
Playwright Jerome Lawrence was one half of one of the most prolific writing teams in the history of American theater.
Most of his best-known works were written in collaboration with fellow playwright Robert E. Lee, and their work appeared in the theater as well as on radio, television, and in motion pictures.
Together with playwright Jerome Lawrence, Robert E. Lee wrote and produced a wide variety of plays that were commercially successful and critically acclaimed.
www.britannica.com /ebi/article-9312111?tocId=9312111&query=racism   (635 words)

  
 Kohler Biographies
The University of Pennsylvania professor was cited as the leading research worker in the field and honored for developing computer models that can forecast directions taken by national economies as well as the effects of public policies.
Klein as president of the Econometric Society and of the American Economic Association or as a member of the President's Council of Economic Advisers (1977-1980) cited his theoretical brilliance when dealing with complex simultaneous equations systems.
No wonder that Klein, a graduate of the University of California at Berkeley and of MIT, received well over 30 honorary degrees from universities around the world.
www.swlearning.com /quant/kohler/stat/biographical_sketches/bio18.1.html   (293 words)

  
 CEMPE/VISITA DE LAWRENCE KLEIN   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Klein, subrayó Roberto Escalante, ha señalado la importancia de la teoría económica que sustenta a un modelo macroeconómico, por lo que se muestra escéptico ante los modelos en que la teoría económica no es relevante.
Lawrence Klein habló de la economía china, en particular del periodo en que aquélla reformó su economía.
México, puntualizó Klein, debe analizar qué tan sensibles son las importaciones mexicanas a nivel bilateral con respecto a los países de destino de sus exportaciones y de los importadores para decidir en qué posición colocar sus indicadores como la tasa de cambio; éstas son algunas lecciones que México puede aprender de China.
www.economia.unam.mx /cempe/klein.html   (1901 words)

  
 Business Economics, January 2005
Lawrence R. Klein is Benjamin Franklin Professor Emeritus at the University of Pennsylvania.
Klein is an econometrician and constructed several statistical models of the United States and various other countries.
Since 1984, Dr. Klein has been director and chairman of the Economic Policy Committee of W.P. Carey & Co. He earned his B.A. from the University of California, Berkeley and his doctorate at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
www.nabe.com /publib/be/0501/klein.html   (460 words)

  
 Klein Award, Monthly Labor Review Online, June 2004
The Lawrence R. Klein Award trustees selected the authors of three Monthly Labor Review articles as winners of the 35th annual Klein Award.
The Klein Award was established by Lawrence R. Klein, editor-in-chief of the Monthly Labor Review from 1946 until his retirement in 1968.
Members of the Klein Award board of trustees are Howard Rosen, president; Ronald Kutscher, secretary-treasurer; Jerome Mark; Ellen Sehgal; William G. Barron; Kenneth V. Dalton; and Deborah Klein, ex officio.
www.bls.gov /opub/mlr/2004/06/kleinaward.htm   (327 words)

  
 Sponsored by the W. P. Carey School of Business, Comerica Bank Economist Receives 2003 Lawrence R. Klein Award for Blue ...
Alfred Nobel Memorial Prize winner Lawrence R. Klein, for whom the award is named, will present the award to Littmann at a luncheon on Tuesday, Feb. 10 at 11:30 a.m.
The Lawrence R. Klein Award for Blue Chip Forecast Accuracy was created in 1981 to highlight the Blue Chip Economic Indicators panelist with the best accuracy record for the preceding year.
This year the award was named for Dr. Klein, known as the father of economic forecasting.
www.prnewswire.com /cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/02-02-2004/0002101217&EDATE=   (847 words)

  
 GIC Board of Directors
Lawrence R. Klein earned his B.A. from at University of California, Berkeley and his doctorate at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
At Penn, he founded the Wharton Econometric Forecasting Associates (WEFA) and was a principal investigator of Project LINK, which combined models from countries throughout the world for studying international trade and payments, and global economic activity.
Klein served as president of many learned societies, edited scholarly journals, and advised governments in matters of economic policy.
www.interdependence.org /b_klein.html   (197 words)

  
 Klein, Melanie --  Encyclopædia Britannica
Austrian-born British psychoanalyst known for her work with young children, in which observations of free play provided insights into the child's unconscious fantasy life, enabling her to psychoanalyze children as young as two or three years of age.
Klein, A.M. Canadian poet whose verse reflects his strong involvement with Jewish culture and history.
Discusses Klein's 1872 ""Erlanger Programme,"" in which he described geometry as the study of the properties of figures that are preserved under a specified group of transformations."
www.britannica.com /eb/article-9045735   (714 words)

  
 BMW Bavaria Defense Mechanism: Bavaria Owners - Lawrence Klein   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Klein sent me a water pump that looked like it was off a 71 El Camino).
I was told by one of Klein's dear friends that "Larry likes to ride the clutch a bit...
Klein is attempting to train his four legged friend to drive while he languishes in the back seat, soaking in the new Koni shocks he obtained from Mr.
members.aol.com /e3bavaria/lk.htm   (463 words)

  
 The Dunlap Reporter
On Saturday, September 3, 2005, at 5 p.m., Laura Bunten and Lawrence Klein were united in marriage outdoors at the home of his parents, Robert and Frances Klein of rural Dunlap.
Maria Davie, sister of the bride, and Anthony Klein, son of the groom, stood up with them and Ann Bunten, daughter of the bride was in charge of the rings.
The bride and groom were given a horse drawn carriage ride and then a cooperative supper was served to the immediate families who were present for the ceremony.
www.zwire.com /site/news.cfm?BRD=1722&dept_id=126942&newsid=15176448&PAG=461&rfi=9   (184 words)

  
 Lawrence Robert Klein, Biography: The Concise Encyclopedia of Economics: Library of Economics and Liberty
Lawrence R. Klein received the Nobel Prize in 1980 for "the creation of economic models and their application to the analysis of economic fluctuations and economic policies." Klein began model building while still a graduate student.
Klein moved to the University of Michigan, where he proceeded to build bigger and more complicated models of the U.S. economy.
In 1958 Klein joined the Department of Economics at the University of Pennsylvania.
www.econlib.org /library/Enc/bios/Klein.html   (421 words)

  
 W. P. Carey - Board of Directors - Dr. Lawrence R. Klein
Klein was elected to the Board of Directors of W. Carey & Co. LLC in 1998 and is Benjamin Franklin Professor Emeritus of Economics and Finance at the University of Pennsylvania and its Wharton School, having joined the faculty of the University in 1958.
He is a holder of earned degrees from the University of California at Berkeley, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Oxford University, and has been awarded the Alfred Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, as well as a number of honorary degrees.
Klein joined W. Carey & Co. in 1984 as Chairman of the Economic Policy Committee and as a Director.
www.wpcarey.com /about/boardbio.aspx?BioID=000025877003&FundID=941003   (177 words)

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