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EspañolROBERT LUCAS, JR.
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'Robert Emerson Lucas, Jr.' (born September 15, 1937 in Yakima, Washington) is an American economist at the University of Chicago. He received the Nobel Memorial 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.
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]
★ Expectations and the Neutrality of Money, Lucas, Robert, , , Journal of Economic Theory, 1972
★ Econometric Policy Evaluation: A Critique, Lucas, Robert, , , Carnegie-Rochester Conference Series on Public Policy, 1976
★ On the Mechanics of Economic Development, Lucas, Robert, , , Journal of Monetary Economics, 1988
★ Why Doesn't Capital Flow from Rich to Poor Countries, Lucas, Robert, , , American Economic Review, 1990
★ Studies in Business-Cycle Theory, Lucas, Robert, , , MIT Press, 1981, 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.
★ Kasper, Sherryl. ''The Revival of Laissez-Faire in American Macroeconomic Theory: A Case Study of Its Pioneers'' (2002) ch 7
★
★ Macroeconomics
★ New classical economics
★ Rational Expectations
★ List of economists
★ Nobel Prize in Economics
★ Biography
★ Robert E. Lucas, Jr. – Autobiography
★ Nobel Prize Press Release
'Robert Emerson Lucas, Jr.' (born September 15, 1937 in Yakima, Washington) is an American economist at the University of Chicago. He received the Nobel Memorial 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.
| Contents |
| Trivia |
| Bibliography |
| References |
| See also |
| External links |
Trivia
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]
Bibliography
★ Expectations and the Neutrality of Money, Lucas, Robert, , , Journal of Economic Theory, 1972
★ Econometric Policy Evaluation: A Critique, Lucas, Robert, , , Carnegie-Rochester Conference Series on Public Policy, 1976
★ On the Mechanics of Economic Development, Lucas, Robert, , , Journal of Monetary Economics, 1988
★ Why Doesn't Capital Flow from Rich to Poor Countries, Lucas, Robert, , , American Economic Review, 1990
★ Studies in Business-Cycle Theory, Lucas, Robert, , , MIT Press, 1981, 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.
References
★ Kasper, Sherryl. ''The Revival of Laissez-Faire in American Macroeconomic Theory: A Case Study of Its Pioneers'' (2002) ch 7
★
See also
★ Macroeconomics
★ New classical economics
★ Rational Expectations
★ List of economists
★ Nobel Prize in Economics
External links
★ Biography
★ Robert E. Lucas, Jr. – Autobiography
★ Nobel Prize Press Release
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