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About Robert Emerson Lucas, Jr., Nobel Prize in Economics, 1995
Robert Emerson Lucas, Jr (September 15, 1937 – May 15, 2023) was an American economist at the University of Chicago. Widely regarded as the central figure in the development of the new classical approach to macroeconomics, he received the Nobel Prize in Economics in 1995 "for having developed and applied the hypothesis of rational expectations, and thereby having transformed macroeconomic analysis and deepened our understanding of economic policy". He was characterized by N. Gregory Mankiw as "the most influential macroeconomist of the last quarter of the 20th century." In 2020, he ranked as the 10th most cited economist in the world.
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Robert Emerson Lucas, Jr., Nobel Prize in Economics, 1995's Timeline
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September 15, 1937
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Yakima, Yakima County, Washington, United States
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| 2023 |
May 15, 2023
Age 85
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Chicago, Cook County, Illinois, United States
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