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 ...

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 ...