Lawrence R. Klein's Birth Card: The 10 of Clubs

In the record

Lawrence Robert Klein (September 14, 1920 – October 20, 2013) was an American economist. The birth-card coordinate for September 14 is the 10 of Clubs — a calendar position, not a forecast of the 1980 Economic Sciences prize.

Nobel Prize record

• 1980 The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel — for the creation of econometric models and the application to the analysis of economic fluctuations and economic policies

The 10 of Clubs coordinate

Lawrence R. Klein's birthday maps to the 10 of Clubs (The Master Builder). Card Blueprints treats that as a 365-day coordinate: solar value = 55 − (2 × month + day), and the year is unused. It is not a prediction about a Nobel Prize and not a verdict on Lawrence R. Klein. The card's own language, quoted as system copy rather than biography: You carry a finished body of knowledge and keep teaching from it.

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Lawrence R. Klein in the public record

For his work in creating computer models to forecast economic trends in the field of econometrics in the Department of Economics at the University of Pennsylvania, he was awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 1980 specifically "for the creation of econometric models and their application to the analysis of economic fluctuations and economic policies." Due to his efforts, such models have become widespread among economists. Harvard University professor Martin Feldstein told the Wall Street Journal that Klein "was the first to create the statistical models that embodied Keynesian economics," tools still used by the Federal Reserve Bank and other central banks. Klein was born in Omaha, Nebraska, the son of Blanche (née Monheit) and Leo Byron Klein. He went on to graduate from Los Angeles City College, where he learned calculus; the University of California, Berkeley, where he began his computer modeling and earned a BA in Economics in 1942; he earned his PhD in Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 1944, where he was Paul Samuelson's first doctoral student. Klein then moved to the Cowles Commission for Research in Economics, which was then at the University of Chicago, now the Cowles Foundation. There he built a model of the United States economy to forecast the development of business fluctuations and to study the effects of government economic-political policy. After World War II Klein used his model to correctly predict, against the prevailing expectation, that there would be an economic upturn rather than a depression due to increasing consumer demand from returning servicemen. Similarly, he correctly predicted a mild recession at the end of the Korean War.

Summarised from the lead section of the Wikipedia article Lawrence Klein (CC BY-SA 4.0). No biographical facts were written for this page beyond that article.

Where the record meets the 10 of Clubs

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Intellectual mastery and deep expertise

Harvard University professor Martin Feldstein told the Wall Street Journal that Klein "was the first to create the statistical models that embodied Keynesian economics," tools still used by the Federal Reserve Bank and other central banks.

Paired on the mind and communication — the domain ♣ governs in this system. Markers in the record: professor.

Also on the record

1. Klein briefly joined the Communist Party during the 1940s, which led to trouble years later.
2. At the University of Michigan, Klein developed enhanced macroeconomic models, in particular the famous Klein–Goldberger model with Arthur Goldberger, which was based on foundations laid by Jan Tinbergen of the Netherlands, later winner of the first economics prize in 1969.
3. Klein differed from Tinbergen in using an alternative economic theory and a different statistical technique.
4. In 1954, Klein's brief membership in the Communist Party was made public and he was denied tenure at the University of Michigan, in the wake of the McCarthy era.

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FAQ

What is Lawrence R. Klein's birth card?

The 10 of Clubs. September 14 maps to that card through the public Card Blueprints formula. The year of birth is not used.

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