On the way from Chicago, I spent the summer of 1947 in Ottawa, helpin… — Lawrence R. Klein

On the way from Chicago, I spent the summer of 1947 in Ottawa, helping to build the first of a series of econometric models for the Canadian government.

Lawrence R. KleinEconomist · American · b. 1920

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My reading of history convinces me that most bad government results from too much government. — Thomas Jefferson
Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison. — Henry David Thoreau
When the people fear the government, there is tyranny. When the government fears the people, there is liberty. — Thomas Jefferson
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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. — Lawrence R. Klein
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