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Lucas, Robert Emerson was born in 1937 in Yakima, Washington, EDUCATION0.
( An article in Fortune a few years ago identified Robert...)
An article in Fortune a few years ago identified Robert Lucas as "the intellectual leader of the rational-expectations school." An academic colleague has called Lucas "the dominant figure in American macroeconomics." And another refers to this group of 14 essays, nearly all of which were first published during the 1970s, as the most influential contribution to macroeconomics in that decade.This volume includes: Real Wages, Employment, and Inflation (with Leonard A. Rapping); Unemployment in the Great Depression: Is there a Full Explanation? (with Leonard Rapping); Expectations and the Neutrality of Money; Econometric Testing of the Natural Rate Hypothesis; Econometric Policy Evaluation: A Critique; Some International Evidence on Output-Inflation Tradeoffs; Capacity, Overtime, and Empirical Production Function; Equilibrium Search and Unemployment (with Edward C. Prescott); An Equilibrium Model of the Business Cycle; Understanding Business Cycles; Unemployment Policy, Rules, Discretion, and the Role of the Economic Advisor a review of Towards Full Employment and Price Stability, A Report to the OECD by a Group of Independent Experts, by Paul McCracken et al.; and Methods and Problems in Business-Cycle Theory.
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(In the past decade macroeconomic theory has undergone a r...)
In the past decade macroeconomic theory has undergone a remarkable transformation. At the forefront has been the "rational expectations revolution," and this school's most brilliant exponent is Robert E. Lucas. In this elegant and relatively non-technical survey, Lucas reviews the nature and consequences of recent developments in monetary and business cycle theory. He discusses the usefulness of alternative models in determining the effects of economic policy on consumption streams and individual welfare. Drawing on a specific model of aggregate activity which represents the current frontier in business cycle research, he then examines the contemporary theory of unemployment. Finally and most controversially, he explores the role of monetary disturbances.
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Lucas, Robert Emerson was born in 1937 in Yakima, Washington, EDUCATION0.
Bachelor, University of Chicago, 1959; Doctor of Philosophy, University of Chicago, 1964.
Lecturer, University of Chicago, 1962-1963; assistant professor, economics, Carnegie-Mellon U., Pittsburgh, 1963-1967; associate professor, 1967-1970; professor, 1970-1975; professor, economics, U. Chicago, 1975-1980; John Dewey Distinguished Svc. professor, U. Chicago, since 1980. Ford Foundation visiting research professor University of Chicago, 1974-1975. Visiting professor economics Northwestern University, Chicago, 1981-1982.
( An article in Fortune a few years ago identified Robert...)
(In the past decade macroeconomic theory has undergone a r...)
Fellow American Association for the Advancement of Science. Member NAS, Econometric Society (2nd vice president).