“I believe that monetary policy has a chronic defect. It is asymmetric—it works better in restraining an economy than in stimulating an economy.”

— Lawrence Klein

"Keynsianism Again: Interview with Lawrence Klein", Challenge (May-June 2001)

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American economist 1920–2013

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