Arthur Stanley Goldberger (November 20, 1930 – December 11, 2009) was an econometrician and an

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. He worked with

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Lawrence Klein Lawrence Robert Klein (September 14, 1920 – October 20, 2013) was an American economist. 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 Penn ...

on the development of the Klein–Goldberger macroeconomic model at the

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. He spent most of his career at the

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, where he helped build the Department of Economics. He wrote classic graduate and undergraduate econometrics textbooks, including ''Econometric Theory'' (1964), ''A Course in Econometrics'' (1991) and ''Introductory Econometrics'' (1998). Among his many accomplishments, he published a number of articles critically evaluating the literature on the

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and other behavioral traits. In 1968 he was elected as a

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Selected publications

* (1964) Goldberger and Lawrence Klein. ''Econometric Model of the U. S., Nineteen Twenty-Nine to Nineteen Fifty-Two.'' * (1964) Goldberger. ''Econometric Theory'' (Wiley Publications in Applied Statistics) .John Wiley & Sons Inc.. . * (1970) Goldberger. ''Impact Multipliers and Dynamic Properties of the Klein-Goldberger Model'' (Contributions to Economic Analysis). North-Holland Publishing Company. . * (1981) Goldberger. ''A Course in Econometrics''.

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Charles F. Manski, "Arthur S. Goldberger", Biographical Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences (2013)
1930 births 2009 deaths University of Michigan alumni Members of the United States National Academy of Sciences Econometricians 21st-century American economists 20th-century American economists University of Michigan faculty Fellows of the American Statistical Association Fellows of the Econometric Society Members of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences Distinguished Fellows of the American Economic Association {{US-economist-stub