Oral history interview with Lawrence R. Klein, 2002.

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Oral history interview with Lawrence R. Klein, 2002.

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Born 1920 in Omaha, Nebraska. Education: Omaha Central High School, University of California at Berkeley, economics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Career: Cowles Commission for Research in Economics, traveling fellowship from Social Science Research Council, National Bureau of Economic Research in US, research at University of Michigan, research at Oxford University, developed LINK model for UN, consultant for various UN agencies, professor at University of Pennsylvania, director of W.P. Carey & Co, winner of Nobel Prize in economics. Themes: economic projections for post-World War II United States, econometric models, investigations by House Un-American Activities Committee, Wharton Model, transmission effect of economic forces across borders, economics of the developing world, development of LINK econometric model, economics for Cold War-era planned economies, transition between wartime economy and peacetime economy, disarmament and development, oil price simulations, AIDS models, public health and education models, impressions of effectiveness of the UN, experience of winning Nobel Prize, work with Jimmy Carter on campaign, impact of ideas on UN policy, need for contact between UN and academia.

transcript: 39 p.

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