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Dr. Lawrence R. Klein was awarded the Nobel Prize in Economics in 1980, and is Benjamin Franklin Professor of Economics (emeritus) at Penn, where he has been a faculty member since 1958. Dr. Klein previously was affiliated with the University of Chicago, the University of Michigan, Oxford University, and the National Bureau of Economic Research. He holds degrees from the University of California (B.A.), M.I.T. (Ph.D.) and Oxford University (M.A.) and honorary degrees and honorary professorships from more than 30 universities worldwide.
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| He was a founder of The Research Seminar in Quantitative Economics (Michigan), of Wharton Econometric Forecasting Associates, a principal investigator of Project LINK, and of the International Economic Review (Pennsylvania/Osaka). He is a member of the American Philosophical Society, the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, the National Academy of Sciences, and a corresponding member of the British Academy. He is an honorary fellow of Lincoln College, Oxford and a foreign associate of the Russian Academy of Sciences. He has advised many U.S. and foreign governments. In 1976 he was the coordinator of Jimmy Carter’s Economic Task Force in a successful bid for the Presidency of the United States. He has served on the editorial board of many scholarly journals and many learned societies. He is a fellow of the Econometric Society, and serves of the board of directors of W.P Carey & Co., and is chairman of the Economic Policy Committee. |
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