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1Name:  Dr. Lawrence R. Klein
 Institution:  University of Pennsylvania
 Year Elected:  1970
 Class:  3. Social Sciences
 Subdivision:  302. Economics
 Residency:  Resident
 Living? :   Deceased
 Birth Date:  1920
 Death Date:  October 20, 2013
   
 
Lawrence R. Klein received a B.A. from the University of California, Berkeley and a Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He served on the faculties of the University of Chicago, the University of Michigan, Oxford University, and the University of Pennsylvania. He was appointed Penn's Benjamin Franklin Professor of Economics and Finance, teaching for thirty-three years. Dr. Klein was an econometrician who constructed several statistical models of the United States as well as various other countries. At Penn he founded Wharton Econometric Forecasting Associates and served as a principal investigator for Project LINK, which combined models from countries throughout the world for studying international trade, payments, and global economic activity. In 1980 he was named the Nobel laureate in Economics. He has been Director and Chairman of the Economic Policy Committee of W.P. Carey & Co. He also had served as president of many learned societies, editor for scholarly journals, and advisor to governments in matters of economic policy. Dr. Klein was elected a member of the American Philosophical Society in 1970. He was also a member of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences and the National Academy of Sciences. He was a foreign member of the British Association and the Russian Academy of Sciences. He was an Honorary Fellow of Lincoln College, Oxford. Lawrence Klein did on October 20, 2013, at the age of 93 at his home in Gladwyne, Pennsylvania.
 
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