Robert Lucas - Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel — 1995
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Robert Lucas

Prize
Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel — 1995
for having developed and applied the hypothesis of rational expectations, and thereby having transformed macroeconomic analysis and deepened our understanding of economic policy
Citizenship
United States United States
Languages
English
date of birth
9/15/1937
place of birth
Yakima
date of death
5/15/2023
place of death
Chicago
Lived
85 years
educated at
  • University of Chicago
    • academic major: study of history
    • academic degree: Bachelor of Arts
    • end time: 1959
  • University of Chicago
    • academic major: economics
    • academic degree: Doctor of Philosophy
    • end time: 1964
  • Roosevelt High School
member of
  • Econometric Society
    • start time: 1975
  • National Academy of Sciences
  • American Philosophical Society
  • American Academy of Arts and Sciences
position held
  • president
    • end time: 2003
    • start time: 2002
doctoral student
  • Hwagyun Hagen Kim
  • Hugo Rodríguez Mendizábal
  • Robert G. Crawford
  • Eisuke Okada
  • Marc Teignier Baque
  • Joao Pedro Hrotkó
  • Carlos Pérez Verdía
  • Önsel Emre
  • Kamilya Tazhibayeva
  • Francisco Luis Roch
  • Peter Zadrozny
  • Marcel Boyer
  • Jean-Pierre Danthine
  • Alan C. Stockman
  • Costas Azariadis
  • Paul M. Romer
  • Max Gillman
  • Matthias Doepke
  • Erzo G.J. Luttmer
  • Lorenzo Caliendo
  • Xiaodong Zhu
  • Eswar Prasad
  • Toshihisa Toyoda
  • Boyan Jovanovic
  • Marianne Baxter
  • Jo Anna Gray
  • Esteban Rossi-Hansberg
employer
  • Carnegie Mellon University
  • University of Chicago
field of work
  • macroeconomics
occupation
  • economist
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