The SSRC committee turned attention from team research for building a model of the United States to doing one for world trade in order to investigate the international transmission mechanism.

I, Lawrence Klein, was born in Omaha, Nebraska, as were my elder brother and younger sister.

During the early 1960s, I decided to supplement research support for quantitative economic studies at Pennsylvania by selling econometric forecasts to private and public sector buyers.

The completion of my undergraduate training at the University of California (Berkeley) provided just the needed touches of rigor at advanced levels in both economics and mathematics.

Although I was not aware of it at the time, the experience of growing up during the Great Depression was to have a profound impact on my intellectual and professional career.

After my first visit to Japan, in 1960, to work on a joint model building project at Osaka University, I maintained a continuing interest in the country and the entire Far East.

An early fascination with higher mathematics at the university level blossomed into speculative thinking that could provide a basis for dealing with economic issues.

It came as a surprise to find that a professional society and journal (Econometrica) were flourishing, and I entered this area of study with great enthusiasm.

Rain is the purest of natural happenings.

With Jehovah- Jireh, life is a joyful journey.

Meditation is… a state that can best be described as deep dreamless sleep while awake.

It's only a two-day hike. But it lasts a lifetime.

Happy relationships are boring. We all want them in our own life. But I don't want to watch them on TV.

Teachers try to make us feel lower than themselves, maybe because this is because they feel lower than outside people. One teacher told me to get out of the room and never come back, which I did.

I guess I rooted for the Creature from the Black Lagoon.

To tackle the underlying roots of violence and conflict, we need a massive international effort to reduce poverty and injustice, and to promote development, democracy and human rights.

Yes, I love playing cartoony characters. Been known for that.

In comedy, my strengths are improvisation.