Robert Lucas Jr. | |
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Born | Robert Emerson Lucas Jr. September 15, 1937 Yakima, Washington, U.S. |
Died | May 15, 2023 | (aged 85)
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 |
Robert Emerson Lucas Jr. (September 15, 1937 – May 15, 2023) was an American economist at the University of Chicago. He was the John Dewey Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus in Economics and the College. He was a known figure in the creation of new classical approach to macroeconomics,[1] he received the Nobel Prize in Economics in 1995.[2][3]
Lucas died in Chicago, Illinois on May 15, 2023 at age of 85.[4]