By Sam Roberts Robert E. Lucas Jr., a contrarian Nobel laureate ... As the economics columnist Leonard Silk wrote in The New York Times in 1983, “If people understand and anticipate what ...

Robert E. Lucas Jr. was a longtime economics professor at the University of Chicago who was awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 1995 based on his theory that challenged and ...

A look at how Nobel Prize winning American economist Robert Lucas changed the field of macroeconomics. He died this week at 85. The world of economics lost a major force this week. Nobel Prize ...

How is it that people and their decisions remain the focus of a rather abstract macroeconomics analysis in Lucas’ work? The answer reveals itself throughout the conversation at his 6th Avenue ...

Economics is full of equations named after their inventor. Robert Lucas, who died on May 15th aged 85, was different. His name graces something edgier: a “critique”. When he presented an early ...

Robert E. Lucas Jr., a Nobel laureate who helped set ... he just changes the answers,” the New York Times quoted economist Alan Blinder as saying at a 1987 convention of the American Economic ...