Robert Lucas Jr.
Robert Emerson Lucas Jr. (born September 15, 1937) is an American economist at the University of Chicago. He is the John Dewey Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus in Economics and the College. He is a known figure in the creation of new classical approach to macroeconomics,[1] he received the Nobel Prize in Economics in 1995.[2][3]
Robert Emerson Lucas Jr. | |
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| Born | September 15, 1937 Yakima, Washington, U.S. |
| Nationality | American |
| Institution | Carnegie Mellon University University of Chicago |
| Field | Macroeconomics |
| School or tradition | New classical macroeconomics |
| Alma mater | University of Chicago (BA, MA, PhD) University of California, Berkeley |
| Doctoral advisor | H. Gregg Lewis Dale W. Jorgenson |
| Doctoral students | Marcel Boyer Costas Azariadis Jean-Pierre Danthine Boyan Jovanovic Paul Romer |
| Contributions | Rational expectations Lucas critique Behavioral economics |
| Awards | Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences (1995) |
| Information at IDEAS / RePEc | |
References
- Snowdon, Brian; Vane, Howard R. (2005). Modern Macroeconomics: Its Origin, Development and Current State. Cheltenham: Edgar Elgar. pp. 220–223. ISBN 978-1-84542-208-0.
- "Robert E. Lucas, Jr. | American economist". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 2017-08-02.
- "The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 1995". Nobel Foundation. Retrieved 2008-10-14.
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