Lawrence B. Krause
American economist
Lawrence Berle Krause (born 1929) is an American economist.
Education
Krause received a B.A. from the University of Michigan (with distinction) in 1951, a M.A. in economics from the University of Michigan in 1952, and a Ph.D. in economics from Harvard University in 1958. His Ph.D. thesis is titled Current balance of payments problems of industrial countries: an empirical study.
Career
Krause was a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution from 1963 to 1967 and 1969–86. He was a senior staff at the Council of Economic Advisers, from 1967 to 1969, under Lyndon B. Johnson. In 1986 he was named the first faculty member appointed to the newly created Graduate School of International Relations and Pacific Studies at the University of California, San Diego, where he was named Pacific Economic Cooperation Professor and director of the Korea-Pacific Program.
Military service
1st Lt. United States Marine Corps, 1954–56
Partial bibliography
The United States Balance of Payments in 1968 (with Walter S. Salant and others), The Brookings Institution, 1963.
The Common Market: Progress and Controversy (editor), Prentice-Hall Inc., 1964.
European Economic Integration and the United States, The Brookings Institution, 1968.
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