Robert Lucas, Jr.

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Robert Lucas, Jr.
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BornSeptember 15 1937 (1937-09-15) (age 71)
Yakima, Washington
ResidenceImage:Flag of the United States.svg U.S.
NationalityImage:Flag of the United States.svg American
FieldEconomics
InstitutionsCarnegie Mellon University
University of Chicago
Alma materUniversity of Chicago
Academic advisor  Arnold Harberger
Gregg Lewis
Known forRational expectations
Lucas critique
Neutrality of money - "islands" model
Notable prizesImage:Nobel Prize.png Nobel Prize in Economics (1995)

Robert Emerson "Bob" Lucas, Jr. (born September 15, 1937 in Yakima, Washington) is an American economist at the University of Chicago. He received the Nobel Prize in Economics in 1995. He is married to economist Nancy Stokey.

He received his B.A. in History in 1959 and Ph.D. in Economics in 1964, both from the University of Chicago. He taught at the Graduate School of Industrial Administration (now Tepper School of Business) at Carnegie Mellon University until 1975, when he returned to the University of Chicago.

One of the most influential economists since the 1970s, he changed the foundations of macroeconomic theory (previously dominated by the Keynesian economics approach), arguing that a macroeconomic model should be built in analogy with microeconomic models. He is well known for his investigations into the implications of the assumption of rational expectations. He developed the "Lucas critique" of economic policymaking, which holds that relationships that appear to hold in the economy, such as an apparent relationship between inflation and unemployment, could change in response to changes in economic policy. He also developed the Lucas-Islands model, which suggests that people are tricked by unsystematic parts of monetary policy, and the Lucas-Uzawa model (with Hirofumi Uzawa) of human capital accumulation.

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His ex-wife, Rita Lucas, upon their divorce in 1988, had a clause placed in their divorce settlement that she would receive half of any Nobel Prize won by Lucas in the next seven years. When Lucas did win the Nobel Prize in 1995 (falling just within the time limit), she was awarded half of the prize money. [1]

He did Economics for his PHD on "quasi-Marxist" grounds. He believed that economics was the true drive of history, and so he planned to fully immerse himself in economics and then migrate back to the history department. [2]

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  • Lucas, Robert (1972). "Expectations and the Neutrality of Money". Journal of Economic Theory 4: 103–124.
  • Lucas, Robert (1976). "Econometric Policy Evaluation: A Critique". Carnegie-Rochester Conference Series on Public Policy 1: 19–46.
  • Lucas, Robert (1988). "On the Mechanics of Economic Development". Journal of Monetary Economics 22: 3–42.
  • Lucas, Robert (1990). "Why Doesn't Capital Flow from Rich to Poor Countries". American Economic Review 80: 92–96.
  • Lucas, Robert (1981). Studies in Business-Cycle Theory. MIT Press. ISBN 0-262-62044-8. 
  • Lucas, Robert (1995) - MONETARY NEUTRALITY Prize Lecture - 1995 Nobel Prize in economics , December 7, 1995
  • Stokey, Nancy; Robert Lucas; and Edward Prescott (1989), Recursive Methods in Economic Dynamics. Harvard University Press, ISBN 0674750969.

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Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences: List of Laureates

Milton Friedman (1976) • Bertil Ohlin / James Meade (1977) • Herbert Simon (1978) • Theodore Schultz / Arthur Lewis (1979) • Lawrence Klein (1980) • James Tobin (1981) • George Stigler (1982) • Gérard Debreu (1983) • Richard Stone (1984) • Franco Modigliani (1985) • James M. Buchanan (1986) • Robert Solow (1987) • Maurice Allais (1988) • Trygve Haavelmo (1989) • Harry Markowitz / Merton Miller / William Forsyth Sharpe (1990) • Ronald Coase (1991) • Gary Becker (1992) • Robert Fogel / Douglass North (1993) • John Harsanyi / John Forbes Nash / Reinhard Selten (1994) • Robert Lucas, Jr. (1995) • James Mirrlees / William Vickrey (1996) • Robert C. Merton / Myron Scholes (1997) • Amartya Sen (1998) • Robert Mundell (1999) • James Heckman / Daniel McFadden (2000)

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