Lawrence Berle Krause (born 1929) is an American economist.
His Ph.D. thesis is titled Current balance of payments problems of industrial countries: an empirical study.
[1] Krause was a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution from 1963–67 and 1969-86.
He was a senior staff at the Council of Economic Advisers, from 1967–69, 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.